"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

"A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

"How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him."

"The end of knowledge is LOVE.  The end of education is character."

"Education should build character."

"Base all educational efforts on building up of the character of the students, and then you can confidently think of rising on in the super-structure of curricula."

"Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline."

"Education softens the heart. If the heart is hard, one cannot claim to be educated."

"True education is not for a mere living, but for a fuller and meaningful life."

"The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education."

"Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service."

"Living with God is the true education."

"I think the nature of Big Ten schools (is) they're not happy just to have programs. You put smiles on people's faces by winning. And the expectation is you do it the right way."

"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."

"I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something."

"We are going to review the game on Monday morning and it will be the best education tool you could possibly give,"

"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."

"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."

"My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach."

"In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and would make me do more in a positive sense. He was the first person who taught me not to be afraid of failure."

"Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school."

"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."