I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with 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.
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
Boards don't hit back.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
Once you label me you negate me.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.