Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm.

No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.