Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prisms, are all very good words for the lips.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. 

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. 

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.