The mental and physical reactions to what are perceived as labor and leisure are distinctively different, though at leisure labor is often involved. Some people are able to maintain a happier balance between labor and leisure, not because they have a world of free time, but because they effectively expanded what is in leisure.

The first thing every baby receives is the all-encompassing mother's love. Revivifying the purity of that native tenderness helps transcending the cleavage between complex emotions and love in its natural simplicity.

A good public official always understands that he is to server the entire population, even though he's elected by only a little more than half of those who voted.

Being a friend to your child is the best gift you give to your child.

In a good paining, each stroke is uniquely required yet it relates to all others in forming the total beauty

Individual liberty can only be acquired individually. It is not something to be imposed, nor it is automatically guaranteed. One begins to commence it when the mind is no longer enslaved by foreign ideas and outwards carriages are commissioned from inner independent thinking.

I try not to make judgmental remarks on the little peculiarities of a youth. In fact, when I am conversing with a child, I find myself having the same sort peculiarities.

A true gardener never plants impatiently, nor does he expect miracles. He begins with a sincere and earnest adoration, loosens the soil with slow and gentle hand, and prepares wholeheartedly to take care what he plants. To him, there's nothing more rewarding than knowing soon he will be able to experience the rejoice from seeing the young seedling sprouting in the soil with crystal-like droplets.

Don't let what we know stand in the way of what we could know.

Every great cause starts with a simple idea - You just have to believe you can make a change