There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.

Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.