Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, ha…

They [the Greeks] were the first Westerners; the spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become…