My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation.

Time cannot be managed. It’s going to pass you by, whether or not you are trying to manage it.

Just because you act a little guilty doesn't mean you're innocent.

By giving children lots of affection you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like

Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!

Life is a school of probability.