Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Step after step the ladder is ascended

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

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

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.