I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.