"In all our efforts to provide 'advantages' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history."

"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."

"Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both"

"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once."

"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage."

"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."

"May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead"

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."

"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."

"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind."

"Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step."