All men are creative but few are artists.

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.

Having a ‘taste for life’ is about knowing its various flavours and awaiting the next meal.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.

I’ll always be doing stand-up as long as people are still interested in seeing me.

Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

Listen,” she said. “I may not be what you want right now, but I’m all you’ve got.

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.