Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

The Business of Our Firm is Business"-Donald W. Hudspeth from:"The Business of America is Business"-Calvin Coolidge

So now I have sworn to bury All this dead body of hate I feel so free and so clear By the loss of that dead weight

But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does.

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.