A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

As long as there is life there is danger.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.