Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Takecare, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you willforever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make adifference, if you choose to do so.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.