The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.