The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

Ideas combined with courage can change the world.

Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said. No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.

The age of a person doesn't matter. The sweetest music is played on the oldest violin.

No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.