School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

Do not let anyone else's expectations direct the course of your life. I have discovered happiness in being true to who I am.

Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.

The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

You can have anything you want, providing you first let go of wanting it.

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

All the Freudian system is impregnated with the prejudice which it makes it its mission to fight -- the prejudice that everything sexual is vile.