It's not that every leaf must finally fall, it's just that we can never catch them all.
. . . good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.
Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.
Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.
When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book.
I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.