The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

In order to understand people, we have to understand their way of life and approach. If we wish to convince them, we have to use their language in the narrow sense of the mind. Something that goes even much further than that is not the appeal to logic and reason, but some kind of emotional awareness of the other people.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.