Stalin is dead! Stalin is dead! No school today!” we yelled. “Stalin is dead! No school today...” was a chant to linger in my ears for years to come.

Man is by nature a curious animal. You can hide the truth from him temporarily, but not for ever.

He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again.

Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain, ” he indicated my head with his index finger, “the Communists won’t ever be able to take away from you.

The cane leaves a mark on your flesh for a few hours, a day or two. The good answers to the questions leave a mark on your brain for many years, sometimes even for life, ” my father said.

The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs.

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

The Bible teaches that whosoever is born of God does not practice sin.

In Will's experience, when someone who ought to be afraid wasn't, the reason was rarely bravery. Usually it meant that they knew something you didn't.

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire the one that inspires all his plans all his actions he would say: "I want to be praised."

Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can be done in a simpler way.

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

All leaders are permanent learners.

If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.