Every person, all the events in your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Go away, I'm all right.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists principally of dealings with men.

"The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain."

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

... "fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter. "I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great

There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".

Nasrudin returned to his village from the imperial capital, and the villagers gathered around to hear what had passed. "At this time," said Nasrudin, "I only want to say that the King spoke to me." All the villagers but the stupidest ran off to spr