John Anthony Ciardi

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. "

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. "

"Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. "

"Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it "

"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion. "