I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.

I can pray better when I'm comfortable.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

You waste life when you waste good food.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.