Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.