Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening the ax.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years

Good words will not give me back my children.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.