When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

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 greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.

Live a life of lies

Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.

Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.