The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

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.

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.

Be your own Guru.

Life is a recipe book our words always cook enough.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it's kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.

I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.