Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

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.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Create inclusion - with simple mindfulness that others might have a different reality from your own.

The first step to success in any business is to ask your customers what they want.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

How can I be sure I've succeeded, if I can't remember what I was trying to do

I think the Internet shortens the distance between people, and that can often lead to inappropriateness.

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

Don't tear other people down. Lift people up.

Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin.

Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen