The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

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

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

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

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.