Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.