Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

I want your tongue back.”“And you’ll get it.” He pulled away only to tug his shirt off impatiently.

We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.

Failure is part of success.

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.

Heaven is equally distant everywhere.

I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.