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.

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.

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.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

next to it was a dvd called 'as i get laid dying,' which had a hospital scene on the front. it was like grey's anatomy, only with less grey and more anatomy.

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace.

The good news is I have time.

I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like a crazy person, that's when things go wrong.

I had never thought of my career as going in the direction that it did, as far as fan response was concerned.

In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth.