The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.

Reading the timeless stories strengthen my spirit in times of suffering.

I suspect that a greater and more insidious influence [than violence in movies] may lie in what they tell us about being in love, and how to conduct ourselves while in that condition.

The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.

A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

I made her the queen of my double wide trailer with the polyester curtains and redwood deck.