The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

People decline invitations when they are "indisposed" physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.