"We understand why children are afraid of..." - Quote by Plato

“The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.”

“A work well begun is half-ended.”

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.”

“A fantastic analogy for the power of focus is racing cars. When your car begins to skid, the natural reflex is to look at the wall in an attempt to avoid it. But if you keep focusing on what you fear, that's exactly where you'll end up. Professional racers know that we unconsciously steer in the direction of our focus, so with their lives on the line, they turn their focus away from the wall and towards the open track.”

“The greatest antidote to insecurity & sense of fear is compassion. It brings one back to the basis of one's inner strength.”

“I don’t fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is saying, ‘Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?”

“A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents.”

“I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.”

“While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.”