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Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us.  But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.  That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. 

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. 

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. 

I am learning all the time.  The tombstone will be my diploma. 

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body.  It rarely sets the soul at rest.  The repose of the night does not belong to us.  It is not the possession of our being.  Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms.  In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.