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

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.

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.

Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

Here's to love at first sight, and here's to getting over it the moment you blink.

Life is must be filled with endless hope.

Your attitude toward Scripture can reveal your attitude toward the Savior. When your passion for God's Word runs high, your passion for God does as well.

There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time

The point isn't to know what you're doing. The point is to have an experience doing something.

“I don't like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.” “I'd rather not,” the Cat remarked.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.