It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

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

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

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

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.