I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.
Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.
The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.
Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.
I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
Once we are truly for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.
If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.
There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
WikiLeaks is what happens when the entire US government is forced to go through a full-body scanner.
It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.
I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.
Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.
We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.
Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.
I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.
A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.
Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.
Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.
The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.
What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.
A lot of smart young people have come out of Indiana. The smarter they are, the faster they come out
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.