Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

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

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

The easy path will seldom lead where you need to go.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

I understand your problem. I'd like to help you out

And yet you thought he was the one? Imagine a lifetime without laughter.

You can never really know the scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype

I have a pretty easy life.

Trail dust is thicker'n blood.

College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.