If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.