Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.