Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

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.

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.

Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

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.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.