We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

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.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

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

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

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