Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Why would I want to fit in?

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe.

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

Time will be your friend or your enemy; it will promote you or expose you.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!