A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

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

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.

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.

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.