Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory - as we see at this moment in the United States - create a dazed population, a 'learned' population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Huge institutions producing costly services dominate the horizons of our inventiveness.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.

Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'