You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

No matter what else you came up against, if you could smile and laugh while a monkey did you with chestnuts in a dank concrete basement while somebody took pictures, well, any other situation would be a piece of cake

According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.