No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Truth exists. The sole purpose of this proposition is to assert the existence of truth against imbeciles and sceptics.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do — for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action.

Anything was better than playing cards, and I was doing something I wanted to do creating.

The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.

No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.