Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

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.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life.... Live it enjoy it taste it smell it feel it.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.

True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.

You know me. It's my duty to please that booty.

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.