A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
Jacques BarzunWriting, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.
Jacques BarzunHighly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.
Jacques BarzunLet us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.
Jacques Barzun