Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.