She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart.

The future goes in incredible speed!

Fading from consciousness is the fact that we all needed help in the beginning

But trust me, it's best to face something head on, smash it, and move on with your life. Lingering and wondering, waiting and worrying... that kills you.

What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing

Racism is a phenomenal thing; it is like a thick mist that obscures the vision and judgement of even great minds.

Friends don't count the cost of favors.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information

Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons

I have called President Obama, and President Obama called me on various issues. This is part of our regular contacts, there is nothing unusual or extraordinary about it.