One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.

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

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

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

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

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.