One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

Appreciation is a better motivator than pain.

Basketball Rule #6A great teamhas a good scorerwith a teammatewho's on pointand readyto assist.

If it gathers dust, give it away ...

I owe my life to my father. I remember that my first Christmas present was a ball. In the district where we lived, there weren't many kids who had one.

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

He was still frowning at the cake, looking at it as if he expected it to sprout dozens of legs and begin scuttling toward him, thin-lipped, teeth bared.

The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.