In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Nothing is more expensive than mediocrity.

In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.