Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

You don’t have to remind a flower when its time to bloom is near

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.

I stopped looking at people's opinions. It's easy to get caught up in what other people think.

The raven red, on ruby pinions winging its way between the worlds, hears dead men singing. It scarce knows it strength, the price it scarce knows, but its power will arise and the Circle will close.

The brain is the first broadcasting station ever invented.

It is a good thing I no longer have a heart, because if I did, it would surely break.

[Donald] Trump was gonna investigate the whole kebang up there and figure out what had gone wrong and get rid of all the deadweight at every agency - EPA, DOJ, what have you.

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.