There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my faith in its ultimate triumph never wavers.

People are not dumb. They feel if you want rather to lead them than to love them.

We are all a slave to our passions

A society without humour is like a tree without roots.

Writers fly with imaginary wings.

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.

When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships

In the faces of men and women, I see God.