A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

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

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.