Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.