Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

Her smile was like a swift light passing across a darkened room.("Hair")

But this is your home''Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!

The purpose of life is to live for others. The moment you start living for yourself, you die before you time.

The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart's memory but love itself?

If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.