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

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.