Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.

If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Decades can be parsed. Television, frequently accused of destabilizing life, is actually what stitches the segments together.

I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.

One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something.

There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.

Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

You don't get to be a keeper of the faith without being a keeper of your brother.

When Love reaches its peak, It reverses back to transform"I Love you" to "O you Evil".

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

A right heart leans on Christ, hangs on Christ, builds on Christ and cleaves to Christ.

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

I'd love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America - anywhere that has a cool culture and a beautiful climate.

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.