I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

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.

If you can't be happy, Make someone else happy! :)

I want these gentle hands... and this kind smile... although I should not want such a thing.

A friend is he who can feel you, adore you, understand you, and never leave you.

Nothing builds confidence like live ammo.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.

Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.