The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

College is not important, knowledge is

To realize your greatest strengths, you must first overcome your greatest weaknesses.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

You must fight social media fire with social media water.

Nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax, and it's a great big one.

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal

Socrates asks him the crucial question about education, and that is, If you study with this fellow, what will he make of you?

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin.