Few things are as important to your quality of life as your choices about how to spend the precious resource of your free time.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.

There is a connection between freedom and self-confidence: When you are kept from expressing your deepest needs and wishes, you lose trust in their validity and in your own judgment. You survive by finding out the rules and following them, thus hiding what you really want. You make it your purpose in life to please others rather than to affirm yourself.

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying.

An unknown but certainly significant proportion of the population has almost completely given up on learning. These people seldom, if ever engage in deliberate learning and see themselves as neither competent at it nor likely to enjoy it. The social and personal cost is enormous.

Although negative self-images can be overcome, in the life of an individual they are extremely robust and powerfully self-reinforcing. Deficiency becomes identity: "I can't learn French, I don't have an ear for languages;" "I could never be a businessman, I don't have a head for figures;"...

If people believe firmly enough that they cannot do math, they will usually succeed in preventing themselves from doing whatever they recognize as math. The consequences of such self-sabotage is personal failure, and each failure reinforces the original belief. And such beliefs may be most insidious when held not only by individuals, but by our entire culture.

We’re trying to solve culture by engineering.

The test of a first-rate intellect is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in your head at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Ideology is like accent. If you think you don't have one, you haven't spent a lot of time around people who don't share yours.

A politician will do anything to keep his job—even become a patriot.

Do not learn if you do not understand.

If you don’t bring it with you, you won’t find it there.

Poem on pilgrimage (travel)

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Show me a person who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a person you can beat every time.

A witty saying proves nothing.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I want peace and I’m willing to fight for it.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in a victory.

What we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.