(Walls) show that politicians have reached the end of their ideas about what to do about a difficult situation with a neighbor. ... They can't think what else to do.

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to comprehend the science of handling pig-iron

It's easier to make a reporter into an economist than an economist into a reporter.

In the early stages of wealth, up to 10 years after individuals became very rich, they display a bit of reluctance to spend money. It's a lot easier rationalizing spending a lot for a house.

Tell him to go to hell.

I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.

Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before.

Follow my finger." He moved it around, tracking my eye movements. "Any blurred vision?""Well I think I'm hallucinating, because I see a big talking pile of crap." - Joanne Baldwin.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.

I'm not a Hillary Clinton defender. I'm a Hillary Clinton promoter.