My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.