I believe if you want to be trusted, you have to trust first. If you do that, you will be betrayed sometimes. But the value of engendering trust is greater than the cost of being betrayed sometimes.

You ultimately have to find out who you are inside and develop a set of values that are truly yourself, and then express them.

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

Revive your soul daily to the dance of soothing music.

Ambition old as mankind the immemorial weakness of the strong.

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is.

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.