If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.