I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

H. G. Wells

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Mal Pancoast

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

Tony Campolo

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies.

Emily Dickinson

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Samuel Johnson

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

Herbert Kaufman

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

Herbert Kaufman

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Isadora Duncan

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Will Durant

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Benjamin Disraeli