Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

I must follow them. I am their leader.

Life is to live for

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing to detach cleanly from the past.

The 'Libertarian' thing was a mistake on my part for saying it, but I am.

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.