Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.