I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

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.

You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.