No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Life is stronger than death.

Love dies only when growth stops.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.