Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

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

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...