"The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art."

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness.… Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible."

"Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace."

"I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am."

"The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience."

"Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it."

"My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear."