A Socrates in every classroom.

This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

He leaned down to her ear and purred. Damn but she loved when he purred.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?

Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars.

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

Peter Norman is a humanitarian, and I say "is" because in my life, Peter Norman is never deceased. He's always going to live with me.

I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman.