Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.

Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.

Never take advice from a donkey.

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.