The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

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

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.

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

We need time to lose interest in things.

I can get quite down on myself because if people don't like what you're doing, it's hard.

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

Most of the verses written about praise in God’s Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

In real conversations, we are always trying to outguess each other.