Life is given us as a passion.

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.

Without knowing failure how can we know success?

Do not hide your weakness for they grow and become powerful demons in the dark.

Read to lead in order to succeed.

A story is a part of the writer's soul, told to the world.

Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.

A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

I never pay attention to age or gender. There are just too many other more important things to consider.

The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.