Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

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.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.