Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

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

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.