Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

A good liar must have a good memory.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Humility is attentive patience.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Boards don't hit back.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.