"The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later"

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience"

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next"

"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old"

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"