My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

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

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.

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