Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

Shake off the self-pity, shake off the defeat and get ready for God to do something new. He is going to pay you back for every injustice.

My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.