Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. – George Sand
Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. – Richard M. Nixon
The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding. – Edgar Friedenberg, The Vanishing Adolescent