In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

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.

Your heart should not be used as a compass for out of it can come deceit, evil thoughts, and actions.

When you think your life is falling apart, it's usually falling together in disguise.

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it - and in breaking it, you have broken mine ... I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?

Equal rights for all special privileges for none.

Enjoy your life...let loose, party hard and just have a good time :) <3

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.

If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.

If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we're missing the love part of the equation.