If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Whatever enchants also guides and protects.

Every step in every proud life is a run from safety to the dark, and the only thing to trust is what we think is true.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.