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

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

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

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.