Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

What greater glory can we anticipate than to stand before the throne of God, to humble ourselves before His great and incomparable majesty.

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

Nurture is like psychic Wheaties.

I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower.

If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.

What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently.

Look upon me, Mistress. Watch as I wither!