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.

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.

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.

Take your time, but don't waste your time. There's a difference.

...bravery often demands a price.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.

The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people

No expert can predict the heavyweight division. Every punch can make the decision.