The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.