The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

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.

You may be a poet and not even know it.

Is there anything whiter than winter snow?

Almost everybody's here doing the same thing. Who am I to come up with an excuse when there's 64 other players here doing the same thing? 63 others, sorry.

Are you stalking me, Mr. Fulton?" The idea both amused and horrified Jazz.

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.

I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out.

I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.