The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching. |

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. |

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. |

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. |

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. |

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. |

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. |

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload. |

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. |

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.
Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. |

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape. |

The most common user action on a website is to flee. |

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits. |

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. |

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. |

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. |

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. |

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time. |

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. |

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. |

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila. |

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. |

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. |

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. |