you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Nevercut what you can untie.