Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

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

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

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment."

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.