Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!