The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may make them capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.