Learning is one letter short of maturity.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into the air, just like a piece of ash from a fire.

A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing.

The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.