Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

In a war of ideas it is people who get killed.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

I got these questions always running through my head. So many things that I would like to understand.