I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.
You don't have to be sick to get better.
The choices you make in your life will make your life. Choose wisely.
Gratefulness is a payment everyone can afford.
A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.
Character is both formed and revealed by how one deals with everyday situations as well as extraordinary pressures and temptations. Like a well-made tower, character is built stone by stone, decision by decision.
Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its being. Surely the requirement of an all-powerful deity who somehow exists outside of our universe, or multiverse, while at the same time governing what goes on inside it, is one such claim. It should thus be a claim of last, rather than first, resort.
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?
But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular case we are now examining, the growth of Capitalism and its increasing proletariat, is the centralization of irresponsible control over the lives of men: the putting power over the proletariat into the hands of a few who can direct the loans of currency and credit without which that proletariat could not be fed and clothed and maintained in work.