The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

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.

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.

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

I get to leave here and do what I love, whether I win or lose. And that seems to matter more than anything else.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

A lot of people love Marco Rubio but they're gonna have - they also love Jeb Bush. They are having a hard time trying to figure out how they gonna - you know, figure that one out.

I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I hear you.