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

Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

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

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.

The unique value of Christianity lies in those things which would never in a million years occur to men if left to themselves.

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

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