It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Who made the world I cannot tell 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

There is no way to peace peace is the way.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

The words 'I am...' are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.

It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours.

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times , in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity-or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity-by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.

Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart.

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.