A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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...

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

Pleasant words are the food of love.