Art is purposiveness without purpose.
Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
I'm a powerful S. O. B. , you know that?
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.
I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.
God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.
. . . if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. . . . The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major. . . it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate. . . [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential. . . it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.