The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

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

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.

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

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

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