“How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.”

Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 1
Context: Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

2010s, 2016, August, Speech at rally in Wilmington, North Carolina (August 9, 2016)

War is a racket (1935)

Sakhi, 170; translation by Yashwant K. Malaiya based on that of Puran Sahib.
Bijak

Source: ARIS architecture and reference models for business process management (2000), p. 380.

People's Education interview (2007)
Context: Pay attention to your students. Hear what they say, try to find out what their capacities are, what make sense to them. Adapt what you are doing and saying to those capacities, but make your students stretch upward. I think the trick is to adapt to the level of a student, but never rest on that level — always make them reach out. … If a student does not quite get it the first time, he or she will come back and get it later. If you don’t set your writing — and teaching — at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking