"Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally."

“Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.”

Source : "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

“Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.”

“There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.”

“I don’t believe in following a path set by others. You have to create a path for yourself.”

“Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.”

“The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.”

Source : Ben Vereen: Biography, www.imdb.com.

“Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.”

“From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an ever-increasing level of complexity. At some point, this complexity reached a point where even the creators of the derivatives themselves didn't understand them.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com