You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

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.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.