Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncov….

Time the devourer of everything..

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his ….

The mature mind seeks to follow through..

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature….

If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searc….

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through..

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith..

I may safely predict that the education of the future will be inventive-minded. It will believe so profoundly in the high value of the inventive or c….

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time..

Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines th….

The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself..

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior..

The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants..

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotion….

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion ….

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race..