The attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises boredom never settles in you.
Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truly die.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Youth has no age
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
A change is as good as a rest
