Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.

Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

Television is the third parent.

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.