The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

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 Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.

My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be a time to put everything together.

I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible

I would much rather sit on the floor. Very rarely do I find a table and a chair that is comfortable. But the floor is comfortable.

I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something.

Jesus came to save us: let us not reject this marvelous gift!

Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.

Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes