Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth.

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.

There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters.

The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

You can lead your brain and inspire it. You can actively shape new neural pathways.

We won't fully experience joy until we've answered life's biggest question: Why am I here?

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil.