Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.