People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

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.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

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