We learned it at kindergarten already:
Share everything
Play fair
Don't hit people
Put things back where you found them
Clean up your own mess
Don't take things that aren't yours
Say sorry when you hurt somebody
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together
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On Guidance:
If you're sincere, praise is effective.
If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free--but it can't go anywhere.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they're on the same side.
The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.
Kids go where there is excitement.
They stay where there is love.
Duty makes us do things well,
but love makes us do them beautifully.
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Just prior to the revolution in 1917, a Russian Orthodox priest was traveling from his residence to the home of a poor parishioner. As he passed a sentry, the startled soldier jumped to his feet, raised his weapon, pointed it at the heart of the humble clergyman and asked three questions: "Who are you? Where are you going? Why do you want to go there?"
The priest stopped in his tracks with his arms in the air and regarded the earnest soldier. After a moment he asked the man in uniform: "How much do they pay you to perform your duties?"
"Twenty kopecks a month," he responded, without lowering his rifle.
The priest paused and reflected on what he had just heard. Then he said in reply: "I'll give you fifty if, every day as I pass this place, you ask me those same three questions."
Who are you? Where are you going? Why do you want to go there?
