The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.