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

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.

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.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.