By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

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

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.

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

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.

More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.