If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Paper is poverty,... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Thomas Jefferson

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

Charles Kuralt

Only misconceptions need to be supported by elaborate arguments. Truth can always stand alone.

Leo Tolstoy

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Johann Georg Hamann

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.

Rafael Sabatini

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Albert Einstein

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Plautus

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

Elliott Carter

If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other. Works indeed of genius fall under no art; heroic minds come under no rule; a University is not a birthplace of poets or of immortal authors, of founders of schools, leaders of colonies, or conquerors of nations. It does not promise a generation of Aristotles or Newtons, of Napoleons or Washingtons, of Raphaels or Shakespeares, though such miracles of nature it has before now contained within its precincts. Nor is it content on the other hand with forming the critic or the experimentalist, the economist or the engineer, though such too it includes within its scope. But a University training is the great ordinary means to an great but ordinary end; it aims at raising the intellectual tone of society, at cultivating the public mind, at purifying the national taste, at supplying true principles to popular enthusiasm and fixed aims to popular aspiration, at giving enlargement and sobriety to the ideas of the age, at facilitating the exercise of political power, and refining the intercourse of private life. It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them.

John Henry Newman, Idea of a Uni

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Wernher Von Braun

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Mary Wesley