The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.