Love and learning are similar in that they can never be wasted.

I have accepted that I don't know all the things that I ought to know, but I do know things that I need to know.

Once your baby tree is in the ground, check it daily, because the first three years are critical. Remember that you are your tree's only friend in a hostile world.

My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in this way, I learned how to absorb difficult books.

People don't know to make a leaf, but they know how to destroy one.

I wonder who else in the world was having such an exquisite dawn.

Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times.

As history of any kind will tell us, when human beings get an opportunity to express their individual selves, a few selves will go completely over the top.

There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people.

Homer no function beer well without.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

Writing is the litmus paper of thoughtthe very center of schooling.