People are dream killers--you've got to be careful who you give emotional access to.
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.
You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.
I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.
He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.
Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.