A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.