“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?”

“The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.”

“The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.”

“The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.”

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”

“The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.”

“Regret for things we have done can be tempered by time, it is regret for things we have not done that is inconsolable.”