At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. "Ninety-four," he said. "You don't think I'd be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?"

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all.

It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.

But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.