Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

You cannot but learn more of the world's heft, as you take it now into your hands.