We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

If you believe that everyone born of God overcomes the world, your country will see the beautiful morning of a new life

The cause of all trouble, the root of all sorrow, the dread of every man lies in this one small word—sin. It has crippled the nature of man . . .It has caused man to be caught in the devil’s trap.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

Too many people are setting up ways to raise money that are questionable.

I can say, particularly as a mother of four small children. I can talk about the coarsening of our culture.

In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.

There is not one world for man and one for animals, they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.