Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.