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Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication.

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

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

How could I lose to such an idiot?

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.

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

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.

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

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

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

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.

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

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

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.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.

Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.

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

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

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

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