I think the worst atmosphere for a six-year-old is one in which there are no expectations whatsoever. That is, it's worse for the child to grow up in a vacuum where "whatever you do is alright, I'm sure you'll succeed." That is a statement of disinterest. It says, "I really have no fantasies for you at all."

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

A mother should have some fantasy about her child's future. It will increase her interest in the child, for one thing. To turn the fantasy into a program to make the child fly an airplane across the country, for example, isn't the point. That's the fulfillment of the parent's own dreams. That's different. Having a fantasy - which the child will either seek to fulfill or rebel against furiously - at least gives a child some expectation to meet or reject.

You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

Economics is a slave-driver. No one has free time; no one has any leisure.