We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.