"What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts."

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

"It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously."

"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'"

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

"I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."

"The key to education is the experience of beauty."