I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.

So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

I'm not the heroic type really. I was beaten up by Quakers.

It is not enough to succeed a friend must fail.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Time is bunk.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward.

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

God is a good choice to lean on. He has a proven record of faithfulness to those who commit their lives to Him.

Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she wanted to go.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.