Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

… see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as a lack of experience and skill.(Seth Abrams)

Beware of success. It can knock you into a fixed mindset.

Just because someone can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.

One man’s weakness is another man’s mercy.

Love will commit, or love will commit suicide.

The power of the Internet is also its limitation - it provides access to large amounts of information without providing guidance on how to sort out what is credible and what is not.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.

A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.