My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

It is our knowledge - the things we are sure of - that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.

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