Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Without love and compassion, nothing is sacred.

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

My first objective is to win against No. 1 in the world.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.