It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through 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.

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.

I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.

At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

The Republicans don't need black folks to vote Republican, they just need them to not vote.

The high note is not the only thing.

The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.

If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.