The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hand….

Life lends itself to fear..

I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes..

I have a cultured manner of speaking..

Shirley MacLaine: what an asshole..

A woman is more than the sum of her parts..

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, exc….

Eventually, I succeeded in everything..

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding..

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading….

More is not necessarily better. BETTER IS BETTER..

I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it..

What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many a p….

Stand by those who stand by you..

I don't really get recognized..

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late..

There is no life without friendship.

Your patience will be rewarded..

Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe..

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy..

Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and,….