“Neither are the humanistic scholars and artists of any great help these days. They used to be, and were supposed to be, as a group, carriers of and teachers of the eternal verities and the higher life. The goal of humanistic studies was defined as the perception and knowledge of the good, the beautiful, and the true. Such studies were expected to refine the discrimination between what is excellent and what is not (excellence generally being understood to be the true, the good, and the beautiful). They were supposed to inspire the student to the better life, to the higher life, to goodness and virtue. What was truly valuable, Matthew Arnold said, was 'the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world.' [...] No, it is quite clear from our experience of the last fifty years or so that the pre-1914 certainties of the humanists, of the artists, of the dramatists and poets, of the philosophers, of the critics, and of those who are generally inner-directed have given way to a chaos of relativism. No one of these people now knows how and what to choose, nor does he know how to defend and validate his choice.”

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

Family is everything. Family comes first. It's not what I expected it to be, but nothing ever is.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power.

The exchange-value of money is the anticipated use-value of the things that can be obtained with it.

"It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life."

"Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing."

"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them."

"I have stated, that in the thirteen species of ground-finches, a nearly perfect gradation may be traced, from a beak extraordinarily thick, to one so fine, that it may be compared to that of a warbler."

"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."

"Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction"

"What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach."

"People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable."

"People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable."

"People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable."

"That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended."

"But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all."

"The virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel"

"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money."

"A book worth reading is worth buying."