Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.

The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely. Similarly, people with great projects afoot habitually look further and more clearly into the future than people who are mired in day-to-day concerns.

Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate expulsion to speak of money, business, politics or the state of one's teeth.

Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.