To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Never ignore others because you are opportune to find yourself in a much better state than them

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.

If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

Expectations always lead to frustrations. Expectations are the seeds, and frustration is the crop that sooner or later you will have to reap. It is your own doing.

Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to live. That's what the good life is.