From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.