I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost obligated to give it back. It's as simple as that.

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to understand the world can profit from the works of Plato and Socrates, the behaviour of the three Thomases, Aquinas, More and Jefferson - the austere analyses of Immanuel Kant and the political leadership of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.