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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you...

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.