Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

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.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.