In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.

I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Human nature in time is engraved in history.

Guard your heart in your spirit.

The rights of others often begins with the fight for justice of one.

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

I'm able to inspire other people, to see the potential of a career, they can look to me and see that they can do it.

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.