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

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.