Happiness Is A Direction, Not

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.

Patriotism Is Proud Of A Country's Virtues And Eager To Correct Its Deficiencies; It Also Acknowledges The Legitimate Patriotism Of Other Countries, With Their Own Specific Virtues. The Pride Of Nationalism, However, Trumpets Its Country's Virtues And Denies Its Deficiencies, While It Is Contemptuous Toward The Virtues Of Other Countries. It Wants To Be, And Proclaims Itself To Be, "the Greatest," But Greatness Is Not Required Of A Country; Only Goodness Is.

Enemies, As Well As Lovers, Come To Resemble Each Other Over A Period Of Time.

Never Take The Advice Of Someone Who Has Not Had Your Kind Of Trouble.

The Greatest Educational Dogma Is Also Its Greatest Fallacy: The Belief That What Must Be Learned Can Necessarily Be Taught.