Happiness is a direction, not a place.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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.