Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

A Socrates in every classroom.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application.

It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.

I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.

We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

Ignorant power is a bane!