A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

When a woman earns a dollar the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children in their education health care and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles the neutrons revitalize.

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

He who laughs most learns best.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present the more intense that yearning.