Education has multiple purposes, but learning how to ask essential questions and how to challenge dogma, tradition, and injustice in appropriate and constructive ways is its highest purposes.

As the world fights those who use violence to advance their agenda, engagement, not neutrality, is needed in our educational systems.

Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly

They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values.

Preparing citizens to act thoughtfully to create a more just, open, and creative society gives form, substance and meaning to often abstract concepts of freedom and democracy.

To be ignorant is to waste the talents you were born with. To be ignorant is to confine your life to a path no different than the generations before you

Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep quiet. Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it.

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.

She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer, Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won!

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear.

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.