Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.