A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Bez blew out a breath and leaned heavily against the bar. "Honestly, D, you're better off busting your subversive cherry with something else. A nice werewolf killing. A vampire blood drive.

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

It is impossible for men by their own strength and natural ability to become Christians, but it is possible for God to make them Christians.

You've been thinking and I've been drinking.

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

The eyes get in the way of the mind.

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.

Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there.