A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.