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

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.

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.

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

Hate will cause you to "catch a case". Release yourself from your own personal jail before you are put in the real one for life! It ain't worth it!!

It is better to love someone who does not deserve your love than love no one.

My voice is still the same and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh mon Dieu when I think what I might be able to do with it!

There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

Lords are lordliest in their wine.

Many people say to me, "I saw [Miral] and it really stayed with me. I woke up the next day and really thought about it, and have been thinking about it for awhile." That was my goal.

The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.