Nogarden is without its weeds.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

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

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

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...