University is a wonderful opportunity to find out not just much more about the world, but much more about yourself, too.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude.

There were no fear of death in children’s eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.