When you're all alone, love one another.
The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests. . . . The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, "Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.
Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable.
My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.
We have to constantly ask ourselves: "Who am I?"
I like to talk about America. It's so mysterious.