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.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

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

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

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

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.