Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

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.

i would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

You understand, you do not invent stuff on this team. Guys that invent stuff will not play for me. Make the easy play

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.