We talk a lot here about grit and self-control. The kids know what those words mean

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Hard work is only a prison sentence when you lack motivation

Hard world is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

That's like being a hockey player born on January I.

Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

It would be easier for me to reject all established values, if I knew what they were.

Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.

...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.

My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.