“How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”

“Your manuscript is both good and original but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”

“Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.”

“If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.”