Being self-taught is no disgrace; but being self-certified is another matter.

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is to heed him only insofar as he obeys their Father--and who decides that? She must keep check on him as much as he does on her. It is, if you will, a system of checks and balances in which each party is as distinct and independent in its sphere as are the departments of government under the Constitution--and just as dependent on each other.

In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.

A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.