You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. – Alexander Haig
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you cant be happy as a success, its very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. – Michael Korda
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell
True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. – Bryant H. McGill