Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

It is not good to make everyday decision based upon what we see and what other people are saying or thinking

My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.

I never feel there's anything I can't do.

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given by those lines.

anything a guy can do a girl can do better...except being stupid

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

Colors are beautiful when they are significant.

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it.