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

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

... 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

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.