you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

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

people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.