Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.