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.

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.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

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 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.

[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

I never meant to be but a dreamer.

Stop telling God how big your problems are and start telling your problems how big your God is.

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

When four or more men get together, they talk about sports.

To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

Be firm on principle but flexible on method.