Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it.

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

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.

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.

From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.

Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.

The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used.

In short, we can only learn from our "betters".

I do think anger is so difficult for women. Girls think it undermines their femininity it's not very ladylike.

I am an instigator of the national energies.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt.

The most ideal approach to advance is the way of opportunity.

When I get to first base, I start thinking about third.

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.

All cultures have been mingled forever.