Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.

He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.

Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.

You can count your days or make your days count for something. The choice is yours.

Pleasure can impact your happiness for better or worse, but it is not happiness.

When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking.

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

From a personal standpoint, playing someone judged negatively by her friends is not difficult.

A novel determines its own size and shape and I've never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require.

...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.

I'm not superman who saves both Earth and the girl.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness