The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."

Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin

I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.

The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject. What could be more personal than that?

The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.