Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water

Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment.

Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

Don't play the victim role, empower yourself instead. Place yourself and others around you in a position to win.

It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out

Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

If you can't do it, don't do it.

I think everyone should pursue their dreams. Whether you want to play football, act, sing, become a writer or whatever you have burning inside you as you’re growing up, you should pursue it.

We only half live when we only half think.