"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"Truth is the essential foundation for producing good outcomes."

"We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life."

"God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head."

"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."