Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

We are chained, but you just don't realise it...

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.

A teacher is not someone you need perpetually. You need them to show you how to get through the doorway; but once you get through the doorway, you are on your own.

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

The party out of office becomes the articulate one.

I was just an ordinary player with a big heart and a fighting spirit to recommend me.

We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.