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

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

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.

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.

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

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

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.