“At the critical moment it is the rare few who can do what needs to be done.-Icarus”

“and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter”

“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”

“Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich...”

“People who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner.”

“I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.”