Children need models rather than critics.


Joseph Joubert

It takes a long time to grow young.


Pablo Picasso

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Gertrude Stein

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

Aristotle

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

General Omar N. Bradley

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Dennis Wholey

It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

Arthur Vandenberg

Principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.


Mark Twain

A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread.

Dioysius of Halicarnassus

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.

Joseph Conrad

False hope is worse than despair.


Jonathan Kozol

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.


A. J. Muste

If you want to work for world peace,
go home and love your families.


Mother Teresa

The future enters into us,
in order to transform us,
long before it happens.


Rainer Maria Rilke

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Jung

With our thoughts we make the world.


Buddha

The way to be safe is never to be secure.


Benjamin Franklin

The future comes one day at a time.


Dean Acheson

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

We either make ourselves happy or miserable.
The amount of work is the same.


Carlos Castaneda

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it is truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

Dennis Prager

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

Aristotle