"The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter."

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance."

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."

"A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission."

"It's no sin to enjoy life."

"1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you."

"The great discoveries are usually obvious."

"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit."

"The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility."

"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."

"A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions."

"If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one."