I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

Sleep not under a willow tree for she weeps many tears.

That's how you know you're doing the right thing - it's so hard you want to give up.

You do not have to provoke other people for them to provoke you, those who hate you will always get a way of blaming you.

Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

Let's make hay while it lasts.

Of all the fools that pride can boast, A Coxcomb claims distinction most.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

After a while I thought it didn't make any sense to use a pick. It's kind of like typing with one finger on each hand instead of using all your fingers.

The idea of Jewish unity, of a plan, an organization, unfortunately exists only in the brains of Hitler and Streicher.