As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.