"Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do..." - Quote by Confucius

“I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.”

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

“The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.”

“I'll teach you to kick me...' You don't need to teach me--I already know how!”

“A great teacher makes hard things easy.”

“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.”

“If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.”

“But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.”