"You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort zone."

"While birds can fly, only humans can argue. Argument is the affirmation of our being. It is the principal instrument of human intercourse. Without argument the species would perish. As a subtle sugges…"

"Incompossible, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both — as Walt Whitman's poetry …"

"If we look at the parpens piled up on the building site or at the block of bronze, nothing about them manifests that they are suited to being a house or a statue. ... Aristotle speaks of the materials…"

"Smith was being realistic-if you give people something before they are ready they are going to mess it up. And that has happened. If he had had the opportunity to work with the people help bring them …"