Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.