Whatever you cannot commonize, you cannot conquer, commonize it to conquer it.

Lies are taught by force, truth is taught by choice.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

The sight of big ships, of the many new uniforms, at once serious and cool, left Bush with an overall sense of the navy's power and camaraderie and purpose.

Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.