Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
We are the people our parents warned us about.
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.