I think the idea that a society has to be responsible for all of its citizens, those who do well and those who do not, is really a precondition of a good society.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

Bon Jovi is most definitely the key to how I am able to write so much in a day

True love is an act of the will—a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.

If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

The rain cometh down and the snow from heaven and retumeth not thither but watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.

I excelled in English while I was at school.

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight