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

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.