Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

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,

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.