Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.

I believe a 'talented' person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

An error becomes a mistake when we refuse to admit it.

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.