I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values.

Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes.

Everything that I'm saying You can say it just as good

I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.

Fight for the right to live in freedom!

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.