Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.
Good students are good at all things.
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.
If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.
But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.
[Anne, commenting on city life] "I think I would probably come to the conclusion that I'd like it for a while. . . but in the end, I'd still prefer the sound of the wind in the firs across the brook more than the tinkling of crystal.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
When New Yorkers tell one about the dangers of their city, the muggings, the dinner parties to which no one turns up for fear of being attacked on the way, the traffic snarl-ups, the bland indifference of the city cops, they are unmistakably bragging.