In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

...and if this samskara has taught me anything, it's that only when you've opened your heart to the love that already surrounds you can you begin to see it elsewhere

Well, I don't know, Lina. But let's just say I've met a lot of dead people.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

We're going to stand up to China, we're going to stop their currency manipulation and product dumping, which is killing us.

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

People can say what they want in the Labour Party.

Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.