“He teaches how to void excrement and urine and the like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles.”

“His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.”

“To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved.”

“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that or not.[Press conference, University of Virginia, May 20, 1957]”

“Teach him to call it 'real life' and don't let him ask what he means by 'real'.”

“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”