Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

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.

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.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.