Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter.
America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.
All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.
