"There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory."

"To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."

"A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand."

"Find peace in where and what you are."

"Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?"

"Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy."

"If it is true that words have meanings, why don't we throw away words and keep just the meanings?"

"Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong."

"What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?"

"Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies."

"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."