Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.