Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

A Socrates in every classroom.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

To become the king of your territory you must not allow any of your time pass without converting it into building your skills in that area of life.

I love to see people move up on the ladder of success, because every success story reassures that possibilities in life are still endless.

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

Everyone in my family has seen me cry before.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes.