No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

Stories can start revolutions.

It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end.

Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.

Wolves are the witches of the animal world.

The best mask for demoralization is daring.

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.

Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.

Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.