Adults are kids with crusts around them.
— Lubin
If we can not have a single, rational religion, then it is best to have a multiplicity of religions, each one of which is willing to tolerate the others.
— Voltaire
Learning is, most often, figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you currently think.
— Jerome Brunner, In Search of Mind
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
— Bertrand Russell
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
— Hector Berlioz
A rabbi — who lived and preached a life of virtue while his congregation ignored him and went on with their selfish ways — was asked, "Rabbi, why do you bother? Nobody listens. You're not changing anything." And the rabbi replied, "But you misunderstand. I don't do it to change them. I do it to keep them from changing me."
— Source unknown, in Seeds of Peace
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
— Lord Melbourne
Vision is like a lighthouse, showing the way and pointing out hazards. It must be slightly beyond reach, but must not be an impossible dream.
— Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro (software developer) and India's richest man at the time
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