Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.