No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.

There is no beauty without order.

Most mothers kiss and scold together.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.