Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.