You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.