He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Children are natural mimics -- they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.

Source Unknown

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Carl R. Rogers

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

Steven Wright

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Francis Parkman

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.

Wallace Stevens

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Robert Collier

He Robert Benchley and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

Dorothy Parker

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Gore Vidal

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.

Suzanne Collins