The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

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.

Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.

God could not be everywhere therefore he made mothers.

One of the great things about Taylor Hawkins is his…shirtless body, really.

I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.