The best time to give feedback to strong people is when they're feeling weak, and to weak people when they're feeling strong.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.

The world will never discover a person who is hiding in the crowd.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

When we're young, everything is possible; when we're old, possibilities are everything.

The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.