I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.

If history repeats itself and the unexpected always happens how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois as well as around the Nation are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

In these days it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

The dilemma of modern medicine and the underlying central flaw in medical education and most of all in the training of interns is the irresistible drive to do something anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors in the face of ignorance.

I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old like I'd been told. I never in my wildest dreams expected anything to be wrong.

I think people tend to see the bigger point which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.