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.

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.

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

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.

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

Under her high brows, she eyed him straight on and straight across. She had gone to girls' schools, he recalled later. Those girls looked straight at you.

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.

A cheerleader? Do I look like a guy who'd be interested in talking to a cheerleader?

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

Style is all about your individual sense of how you want to present yourself to the world. It's about loving what you've got instead of wishing for what you're not.

Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.