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.

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

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

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

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

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

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.