Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Our best chance for happiness is education.

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

We know well only what we are deprived of.

People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

Ability to have that sort of feedback loop with your readers to me felt incredibly powerful.

Self-love knows no impediment.

Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today

The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.