The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into.

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

He groaned and I saw his face. "Curran!" I would've preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait...

I believe that the school must represent present life - life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the play-ground.

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am.