The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

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.

Education is worthy if it tells you that how you can be a blessing for humanity.

DeYtH Banger is a character, who is famous because of me, who is created by me and who lives by me...

There's no reason to worryI started brand new story

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle.

What's done to the children is done to society.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.