Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner drive go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Non-violence requires a double faith faith in God and also faith in man.

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

The printed page conveys information and commitment and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

And to get real work experience you need a job and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person who is then equal.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities so the social process requires standardization of man and this standardization is called equality.