Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.