It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm.

You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing

If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.

By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money.

I've been to Japan so many times, but I still constantly stumble across things that are so foreign to me.

Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.