You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.