Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case." --

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?