Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.