A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance.
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
Politics is the art of the possible. (originally, “Die Politik ist die Lehre von M?glichen.”)
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
…the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.