Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences between the average American today and the hairy men with clubs who accompanied Attila to the city of Rome.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the process is mere dreaming, that it wastes time and leads nowhere. It is said to be "impractical." As the child grows and its imagination inevitably leads it to express unconventional ideas and to try new behavior, it is chided and even viciously punished for such signs of unorthodoxy.