A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

If you never love you never hurtIf you never hurt you've never lived.Love in life and embrace all the pains that come with it.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

Some people are allergic to your success. Such people...when you smile...they cry, and wish you were dead.

I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.