The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

Honesty: The ability to resist small temptations.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

I have one head that wants to be good, And one that wants to be bad. And always, as soon as I get up, One of my heads is sad.

Let our love be like an arch- two weaknesses leaning together to form one strength.