If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.