Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.