You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.

I get $13 [a week] now, because I’m 13.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

I feel a little like Rod Tidwell from Jerry Maguire

I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson, like my brother as well. We both take the mickey a bit too much.

We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.