Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Copy QuoteThe heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Copy Quote View & ShareTo achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Copy Quote View & ShareCould a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
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