This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

A Socrates in every classroom.

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

While God’s will is that every marriage will endure, man’s sin has poisoned many relationships.

Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking

Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders!

Prophets foretell the future

if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

Anything is possible, and that’s something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.