Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon.

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

Sometimes it takes a guide from outside the place you know too well to remind you why you are here.

It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.