A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

Have the courage to act instead of react.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.