God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

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

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.