Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the élan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school.