Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

Too many locks, not enough keys.

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich, ” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Many lose through never starting. A job well begun is half done.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

Blessed are the common people. God loves them; that is why he made millions of them.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.