But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.