The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

Rutherford B. Hayes

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Richard P. Feynman

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Some would deny any legitimate use of the word God because it has been misused so much. Certainly it is the most burdened of all human words. Precisely for that reason it is the most imperishable and unavoidable. And how much weight has all erroneous talk about God's nature and works (although there never has been nor can be any such talk that is not erroneous) compared with the one truth that all men who have addressed God really meant him? For whoever pronounces the word God and really means Thou, addresses, no matter what his delusion, the true Thou of his life that cannot be restricted by any other and to whom he stands in a relationship that includes all others.

Martin Buber, I and Thou, 1923

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Alfred Tennyson

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

Eleanora Duse

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

Oscar Wilde

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

Hugh Mackay

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

Anne Bronte

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

Buddy Hackett