The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

Lucy: Why do you want me to stay?Asher: Because I like you.Lucy: Why do you want me to go?Asher: Because I like you.

It’s human nature to view life from our own reality.This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane.

All over the world there were families deciding to care about each other and encourage one another along the paths God had given them.

One day that same year, I told my dad that someday, I would sail around the world alone.

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort of modestly step back and let the country figure out what it believes.

The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits over that period.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.