Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.