I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.