Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.