A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

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...

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.