Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
What people need and what they want may be very different. . . . Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.
If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.
Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They're realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
In 1970, you went to school to find your husband.
People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.
I have heard upscale adult U. S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet. . . I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel.
The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.