The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

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.

The body is an outstanding source of strength

Lovers have no primary needs

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.

It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.

When u have this spirit of excellence, u do the right thing always :even if no one is watching you.

Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

Emotion is contagious.

All is divine, all is God, and unity is divinity.