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.

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.

Books are absent teachers.

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.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision.

If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar... If they're going into law, they're going to be chief justice.

Unexpected doors fly open, unexpected channels are free, and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways.

It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

Humans need fantasy in order to be human.