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

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.

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.

I'm just scared I won't run as fast as I did my freshman year, ' I admitted, choking back tears.Coach Woj looked at me for a moment, his eye gentle.'You don't have to.

Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.

Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.

You can't just tell actors, especially young ones, to 'act happy' and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.