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

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

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

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.

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

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