We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

...primarily the individual is going to study at home.

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.

You can be a victim, or you can lock and load.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's

Life is short, and the Tour de France long.

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

People can stand around and share movement with each other, whether it's professional or not. That's how it grows. That's what dance does. It's its own language.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.