A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.