[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

The worst form of snobbery is to deny information

I have fallen in love with the stories of our lives, our everyday mythologies. How will they unfold? What will become of us?

This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,

Hallelujah songcarries on a gentle wind, heralding a king.

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.

It's not just being overweight that's dangerous. Stress is dangerous.

Lucy,' he murmured, 'you have some splainin' to do.

Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.

Sophistication isn't what you wear and who you know.