Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

There comes a time in the development of every ego when it must love its neighbors or become a twisted and stunted personality.

Paradigm shift: does that come before swing shift or after?

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.

Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.

John was closest of all to Paul; their relationship was very complex.

It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.

The person who is ahead in the end will have the advantage.

I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.