Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

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.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.