"Unless the investment in children is made, all of humanity's most fundamental long-term problems will remain fundamental long-term problems."

"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."

"Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy."

"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."

"Just because a poet said something didn't mean it was true, only that it sounded good."

"An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications."

"Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon."

"There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule."

"I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde."

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."

"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."

"Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."