Every fall happens in a slow fade.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

And The Monster Said "Define Morality" Later To Explain That It Depends On The Person If They Are A Person.....

Heaven is the natural spaciousness of our mind before we make it small with self-protection.

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said?.

No worries. They don’t scare me. (Devyn) All right, but if my brain matter ends up smeared against a wall, I’ll never forgive you. (Alix)