"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion -- these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness." -- Jerome S. Bruner "Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present -- which seldom happens to us." -- Jean de La Bruyere "If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it." -- Art Buchwald "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." -- Buddha "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." -- Buddha "Good thoughts will produce good actions and bad thoughts will produce bad actions. Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love." -- Buddha "Our patience will achieve more than our force." -- Edmund Burke "Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school, I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years." -- George Burns "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." -- George Burns "The most important thing to succeed in show business is sincerity. And if you can fake that, you've got it made." -- George Burns "Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!" -- Robert Burns "I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." -- John Burroughs "To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another." -- John Burroughs "I may be the only woman in America who knows exactly what her child is up to all the time." -- Barbara Bush "We've now found another real good reason to use duct tape." -- George H. W. Bush on antiwar protestors who interrupted his speech Index