"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."

“right now, when the Japs are planting their hatchets in our skulls, it seems like a hell of a time for us to smile and warble: “Brothers!” It is a rather flabby battle cry. If we want to win, we've got to kill Japs, whether it depresses John Haynes Holmes or not. We can get palsy-walsy afterward with those that are left.”

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”

“The Advertising Artwork of Dr. Seuss”

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

“Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.”

“... and the wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones ... But those were Foreign Children and it really didn't matter ...”