"For many students, school is an obligation, not a joy and a privilege. This means you need to ‘sell’ the learning to them."

“At a certain R.P.M., there's only one way for blood to leave your body, and that's through your eyeballs. That means you're dead.”

“The reason you have what you have is because that is what you have decided to settle for right now. Change your mind, change your life.”

Source : FaceBook post by John Assaraf from Jun 03, 2014

“O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.”

“What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.”

“Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.”

“The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you don't have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people as a result.”

“Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.”

“Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embittered if they fall short- to try to do good with people rather than to them- this is my religion on its human side. And if God exists, I think that he must be in the warm sun, in the kindly actions of the people we know and read of, in the beautiful things of art and nature, and in the closeness of friendships.”

Source : "The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918".