The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

That’s what the prom is—St. Patrick’s Day for the young.

My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings.

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: "No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat."

Tear to a glass eye. Tear to a glass eye.