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.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

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?

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

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.

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.