We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.

Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.

In the flesh rather than the work of the Spirit, it is easy to say we are showing holiness and it only be egotistic pride and hardness.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.

I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.

You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.

I love doing action and stuff; the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there's less opportunities for me.