A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

The present is never a happy state to any being

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

Think big, believe big and act big for gaining victory over your difficulties.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.