Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

Wakin' up to find another day. The moon got lost again last night, but now the sun has finally had its say.

I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Age will flatten a man.