Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

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.

...the terrible crumple and blanch of a lie come undone...

Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.

Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.

Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

I got it all, I got the money, I got the looks, I got the brainpower

Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.