Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.