To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.