Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.