An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.
When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.
Maybe I should see things as they really are and not as I want them to be.
Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.