What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.