The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.