The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

People have done this before, but not us.

Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!

The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.

In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?

I try to jog in every city I visit, and I particularly enjoy harbour-front paths that let me ogle big ships, railroad bridges and the ruins of factories and warehouses.

If the market is so cheap, you want to get something with a little more zip in it, or potential.

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.