The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

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.

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.

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

If you spend your life living in fear or doubt, you will never actually live life, and will only be coexisting with the rest of the world.

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

Despair puts the last touch not only to our misery but also to our weakness.

How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.