Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.

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.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.

True kindness is the greatest measure of a person.

Enlarge your windows till you will get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!

Alone a candle can only light a room, but in thousands they can even light a city.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.