The real is the rational and the rational is the real.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.

Dave put a lot of thought into picking out the books his dad would like least.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

You can do anything, but you can't do everything

Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.