The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

Good isn't my thing but Sawyer's important to me. Please remember I've got my limits and you studying my mouth like you want a taste is pushing me dangerously close to the edge of those limits.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

There is no such thing as an unimportant day.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.