Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

No human creature can give orders to love.

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.