We’re depriving our kids of the chance to do the work of life for themselves.

But we should open our eyes to the many ways in which hypervigilance keeps them penned in from the more liberated life they deserve to live and that in turn would prepare them for adulthood.

Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured.

Young adults come to resent the people who did the thinking for them.

A sense of purpose is essential for achieving happiness and satisfaction in life.

There is something that's a great deal more important than parental approval: learning to do without it. That's what it means to become an adult.

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do but you suck it up and do it anyway, and that's what teaches you humility, work ethic, responsibility, and follow-through.

Happiness and self-confidence can be the by-products of other things, but they cannot really be goals unto themselves.

We're [as parents] striving for an unattainable, inauthentic shell, and ignoring the real nut, the gooey inside: love, laughter, and fulfillment from simple things.

If knowledge is a glass of water, then wisdom is the unlimited, infinite and not yet invented ocean.

The diversity of different colours is displayed in a rainbow.

The two are now bound inextricably. Should one die, the other will follow. No wepon in this world can wound only one of them

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it’s because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.