It’s entirely on our children to build their best futures. Not on us, parents. And we should be imprinting this message on our children’s brains from as early as possible.

Pushing them (children) into a career that is “practical”/ “safe”/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn’t count as help. It’s how parents satisfy their own needs.

The time to build your future is in your teenage years and your 20s, but equally, in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.

You don’t need to provide your parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings.

They know a lot, but they don’t know everything, and they can’t advise you on anything.They can only tell you what they believe worked / or didn’t work for them.

Mistakes are part of life. And yet, for some reason, most parents in this world, wish their children made no mistakes at all, or as little as possible.

If parents want “success stories” to share at gatherings they should provide themselves with those, and they should not use their children for that purpose.

They (parents) have been doing this (imposing their beliefs about life on you) since you were born. That’s more than enough to establish a habit.

They (parents) use this guilt-tripping to stop you from fulfilling your plans, but most important, from believing something they don’t (something which contradicts their beliefs)

It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.

We are all entitled to our own share of mistakes and learning experiences in life. No one should take them away from us. Not even our parents.

A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.

To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

We have a very narrow view of what is going on.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

Of all whose words I have heard, no one attains to this, to know that wisdom is apart from all.

That's the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I liked that people would engage with them.

The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience