As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.

Richness does not exist in being wealthy

Through the fields and daisies and tall warm grass, my Lord Jesus as time meets eternity our lives will be perfect, and will never pass holding on forever a love that has no end.

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life for all things else being equal our prayers are only as powerful as our lives

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.

When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.