If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.

The mature mind seeks to follow through.