An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.