Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around.

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

The only person who can fix education is the student.

Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.

The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.

Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

I'm not letting you -- us -- go that easily, sweetheart, so get used to having me in your life.

It must never be forgotten that the general standard of learning and culture of a nation has a large part in determining its law and polity.

It is a though he is spreading a veil of protectiveness over me, and I am greedy for it.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Show me that you are redeemed, and I will believe in your Redeemer.

The media - they want to rush everything. They want to give their seedy opinions without knowing all the facts.

"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.

All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.