It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones

Take care of yourselves

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life.

I've never been compared to Bugs Bunny and that's amazing, thank you.

They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.

Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again