Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Are you seeking to be offended?

Blow out all negative attitudes and live true to your dreams. Talks less and act more. Be confident and see yourself wining even before the victory comes.

Our human resources as marshalled by the will were not sufficient they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities.

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.

If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure.

The UN, of course, must also adapt to modern demands and take into account the reality of the modern world in its work.