Virginia

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community-these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nuturing family.

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.