Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

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.

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

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.

Our sins are our downfall. We must repent and return to the Lord. And He will receive and forgive us graciously.

Ask a sage, he will explain.Ask a fool, he will complain.

Perfect is the enemy of done.

When Greed makes to money number one priority, it trust nobody

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.

I'm ... incredibly open with my mates. Or even people I just meet.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.