Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

There's a big difference between guiding and controlling.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship.

AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.

Having a phobia has changed me.