It is by losing himself in the objective in inquiry creation and craft that a man becomes something.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

The family is the American fascism.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who are among the least.

Few great men would have got past personnel.

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans.

The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ...

You don't have to be a good person to feel like a good person, though. There's a loophole I found where I don't do good, helpful things, but I keep myself in a perpetual state of thinking I might.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

Compromise is like the middle of the road; always safer to walk on than the edges.

You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.

At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

I've always wanted to try new things because it's exciting and it keeps you active and alive.

Magic is the projection of natural energies to produce needed effects.

I don't score highlight reel goals. They come from work, from getting into the corners, getting a little dirty.?