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

Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.

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

The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.

The very helplessness of the public which makes it necessary for them to consult the experts also makes it impossible for them to judge how expert they are.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism... the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.