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.

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.

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.

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage!

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

If you're going to get into big time religion, these are the games you have to play. You go into it as a business and you work it as a business.

It would serve the Americans right if we emptied the prisons and let the subversives take power. They'd soon show Washington just how much they appreciate good old American values.

The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.