“Life is not meant to be an open-book test.”

“There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”

“Thoughts that cannot survive the open air and that evaporate as soon as we take them out of the room. To put them to the test of isolation. Take them out of the book where you found them, they do not endure.”

“Let us prepare every child for the test of life, not just a life of tests.”

“This life is a test-it is only a test.
If it had been an actual life, you would have received further
instructions on where to go and what to do.
Remember, this life is only a test.”

“There are a great many doors open; but a door must be of a man's size or it is not meant for him.”

“Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN.
“Open it!” Leo yelled again.”

“The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.”

“Life is a gift…
Life is a test…
Life is temporary assignment….”

“The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.”