The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it’s usually too late?
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
We call a child’s mind ‘small’ simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn’t seem to matter.
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
The trouble with wedlock is that there’s not enough wed and too much lock.