I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

To get here had been painful, but for once in my life I felt free.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the other.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.