Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

All students can learn.