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.

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

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or creative spirit that it will set itself to develop that spirit by all means within its power.

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

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.

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.