It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

If you will not meditate, your mind will not accept what the Spirit of God is revealing to you

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

For one to control one's thoughts and feelings means one can actually control one's atmosphere and all who walk into its sphere of influence.

Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.

What you do as president has consequences.

That’s always the hardest thing when someone completely has you fooled so much, that you think they’re just never going to hurt you, then they do. That’s when you get the worst heartbreak.