Books are absent teachers.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

Everything they've said is tainted now. Every day was a lie.

We all look. The lucky find. The wise accept.

Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.

I sold my soul to rock 'n' roll.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.

Give your hands to Him for His work, your feet to walk His path, and your ears to hear Him speak.

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.