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We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms–this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men.
He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last-but eat you he will.
[The shortage of student loans] may require…divestiture of certain sorts-stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture.
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, remain neutral.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
