When We Inform, We Lead From Strength;

At It's Highest Level, The Purpose Of Teaching Is Not To Teach—it Is To Inspire The Desire For Learning. Once A Student's Mind Is Set On Fire, It Will Find A Way To Provide Its Own Fuel.

And Most Of The Failures In Parent-child Relationships, From My Observation, Begin When The Child Begins To Acquire A Mind And A Will Of Its Own, To Make Independent Decisions And To Question The Omnipotence Or The Wisdom Of The Parent.

The Lusts Of The Flesh Can Be Gratified Anywhere; It Is Not This Sort Of License That Distinguishes New York. It Is Rather, A Lust Of The Total Ego For Recognition, Even For Eminence. More Than Elsewhere, Everybody Here Wants To Be Somebody.

All Our Efforts To Attain Immortality-by Statesmanship, By Conquest, By Science Or The Arts-are Equally Vain In The Long Run, Because The Long Run Is Longer Than Any Of Us Can Imagine.

The Truest Test Of Independent Judgment Is Being Able To Dislike Someone Who Admires Us, And To Admire Someone Who Dislikes Us.