Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.