When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

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.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.