The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

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.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

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

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.