A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Conflictcan destroy a team which hasn't spent time learning to deal with it.