If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, of course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.