For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.