The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because it reminds us of who fed us a meal.

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

Some people never find love at all, count yourself blessed if it ever happens your way

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.