If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

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.

In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.