..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.

Nobody knows exactly what he's capable of until he tries!

I don't want to tell people what they should think.

Take care of the halfpence and pence, and the shillings and pounds will take care of themselves.

Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.