A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

[Friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape, there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage or the family, it is held together by neither law nor property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking. It is therefore rare.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.

Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to.