They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

Your moment is now. Claim it!

I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities.

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this:...

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

Even the wisdom of the wisest depends on the accumulated wisdom of the past!

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

I've said all along that God is in control.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Change in all things is sweet.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

ثم أردفت: «هناك في المستشفى بدأت أصنّف الكتب إلى فئتين: الكتب النهارية والكتب الليلية. وهذا صحيح، هناك كتب للنهار وكتب أُخرى لا يمكن قراءتها إلا في الليل».

When I was a little older, about twelve, I went to work at a nearby house. It was owned by old Mrs. Cromby and oh, I was so homesick! I cried myself to sleep for a fortnight it seemed, until it was my...

What are these guys? He whisperedCanadians, Percy said. Frank leaned away from him. Excuse me?Uh, no offense, Percy said. That's what Annabeth called them when I fought them before. She said they live...

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.

To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demora...

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

Some things are better when it’s raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this.Lying in bed with me?