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

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

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

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.

Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

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.