We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.

I was conscious, then, of a different ache, deeper and more sharp than the feeling of bereavement that a hangover will sometimes uncover in the heart.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.

People are best convinced by things they themselves discover.

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever.

Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.

When you feel most alive, find out why, This is one guest you won't greet twice.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they were useful to us in this respect.