Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

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.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.