A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.