“A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradit...”

“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”

“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”

“A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.”

“Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”

“Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if...”

“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”

“Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.”

“One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.”

“All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself”

“They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.Ive never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I mig...”

“But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to erect a new and better one in its place.”

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”

“Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.”