“Experience came easily enough, learning how not to suffer would have proved much more practical.”

“This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”

“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”

“It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64)”

“Ignorance means that you have not yet learned a skill, whereas stupidity means that you can never learn it no matter how much practice you get.”

“I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”