"It is a unyielding truth that experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"It is a essential truth that patience is not passive waiting; it is active endurance with a calm countenance — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

"I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain."

"The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control."

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

"Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship."