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

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

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

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.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

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

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