Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don’t want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.

We need to act and embrace uncertainty as a pool of opportunity.

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

I have to tell everyone everything that's going on. It is different once you're married, because that's sacred.

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

Anne Arundel County has become the world's epicenter of military intelligence and defense-related information technology.

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.