"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."

"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."

"Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?"

"Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

"Hope is the denial of reality."

"Whatever advice you give, be brief."