In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

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.

You’re going to let her wander into someone else’s arms? There’s another man who could protect her better than you? Well, if that’s true—

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

I loved 'Clueless.' That was one of my favorite movies of all time.

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth.

I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.' That way you won't be brokenhearted if ever it gets canceled five episodes in - which has happened to me.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.