The family is the American fascism.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

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.

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand.

You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldn’t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.

Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can," he says, and I pull him to me.

A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.

With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.

Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.