The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.