An ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day.
Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Ideas are the roots of creation.
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it.
I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.
The greatest disaster of all was after all the difficulties and loss of life and expenditures, President [Barak] Obama walked away, in 2011, and it is a disaster. And now we've got half of Iraq under the ISIS control and terrorists, and Iran has moved in because we weren't there, and they've taken more influence. Just a few thousand troops, in my opinion, would have avoided that.
[Vincent Price] taught me how to cook fish in my dishwasher.