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

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.

A Socrates in every classroom.

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?

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.

The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

If you do not find me funny, that is your problem and I am not going away.

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

Never start a business just to 'make money'. Start a business to make a difference.

Cause mo better makes it mo better.

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.