I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

All progress is experimental.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living.

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

The prettier. Now fight for it.

I don't consider genre while writing.

I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.

In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!