What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Let us make a choice and a promise to be kind, courteous, loving, and forgiving.

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

Too much success is not an advantage. Do not tinkle like jade Or clatter like stone chimes.

Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens?