I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.