In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

A poet laureate of adolescent sexuality and middle-age longing.

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Without the spirit of gratitude, no amount of blessings would activate the feeling of happiness in one's mind.

If you believe that success is only connected to money, you will not last long.

Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

I have a romantic side. I do things.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.

You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.