We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.

To get to a destination, you have to know the address. To find your purpose in life, you must set a goal, draw a map, and start the journey.

Great men learn from their weaknesses, and learn to use their strengths.Ordinary men learn nothing from their weaknesses, and underuse their strengths.

Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.

Don’t wait for people to be kind, show them how.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician.

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

It's so important to reach out to people you trust, and who can give you honest feedback, and keep those people close to you. You don't want to surround yourself with enablers.

We need not borrow and take up sorrows upon use of the morrow, to make up our present load; as we read of daily bread, so of a daily cross, Luke ix. M, which we are bid to take, not to make.