“You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.”

“Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.”

“One of the hardest things for a teacher is to know when to keep quiet and when to let go. It is a terrible thing to hold someone back from success, or to insist on sharing credit, or to tie someone...”

“Until the sixteenth century, menpriests, academics, judges, merchants, princes, and many otherswore skirts, or robes. For men, the skirt was a 'sign of leisure and a symbol of dignity,' writes Quen...”

“Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.”

“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.”

“Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times.”

“There was and still is a tremendous fear that poor and working-class Americans might one day come to understand where their political interests reside. Personally, I think the elites worry too much...”

“Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systematically. Nothing here can escape us, because what reason brings forth entirely out of itself cannot...”

“Online review sites are the slushpiles of feedback.”

“Neither care too much nor too little about the feedback of others.”

“Theres a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you dont need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.”

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”