Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

There is no life which does not possess its own importance, no life which may not be touched by greatness at any time -- Yes, be touched by greatness and have a hand in it. (from The Mirror of Her Dreams)

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.