In The End, As Any Successful Teacher

To Deaden Yourself Against Any Hurt Is To Deaden Yourself Also Against The Hurt Of Others.

There Are Almost No Limits To The Discoveries Of How The Human Brain Operates In Illness And Health, In Sleep And Waking And Dreaming, In Calm And Under Tension. The Question Is How Far Man Can Put These Discoveries To Use Without Using Them Not For Cure But For Power.

Principles-and I Have In Mind Such Principles As States' Rights Or National Sovereignty Or The Free Market Or Pacifism-have A Way Of Drying Up While The Sap Of Life Goes Flowing In Another Direction.

Of The Many Things We Have Done To Democracy In The Past, The Worst Has Been The Indignity Of Taking It For Granted.

Some Of The More Fatuous Flag-waving Americans Are In Danger Of Forgetting That You Can't Extract Gratitude As You Would Extract A Tooth; That Unless Friendship Is Freely Given, It Means Nothing And Less Than Nothing.