Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.

Giving someone their style or bumping up their sense of style to be a better version of what it is, is part of the fun of what I do, and I actually approached Al Sharpton. They didn't come to me.

My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

I take a breath when I have to.

You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.

We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.