Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.