Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
No.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.