Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think

In the midst of life, we are in death.

Words!The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today.

Aristotle is the last Greek philosopher who faces the world cheerfully; after him, all have, in one form or another, a philosophy of retreat.

The most successful people in life have the best information

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.

We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe was made.'

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.