If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you read more

If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you are planning for 20 years grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow men.

Birth is the beginning of death

Birth is the beginning of death

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at read more

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found read more

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most read more

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest read more

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.