I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

Paul Auster

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

William Hazlitt

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Noam Chomsky

True nature being lost, everything becomes its own nature; as the true good being lost, everything becomes its own true good.

Blaise Pascal

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

William Penn

May our eyes focus rightly on Christ ... before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most valuable if put in their proper position.

Traci LaRussa

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter Drucker

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt.

Albert Einstein

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

H. L. Mencken

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Marcel Proust