Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.