Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
Focus on quality and ease of movement, not on the age a milestone is accomplished.
Observe more, do less. Do less, enjoy more.
The more we do, the busier we are, the less we really pay attention.
Children do not play because they learn; They play because they play.
Educarers demonstrate love by showing and teaching respect.
We all need someone who understands.
In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.
All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.