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

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

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

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.