True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.

From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.

Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.

The mind can atrophy, like the muscles, if it is not used.

In short, we can only learn from our "betters".

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there.

The last seven weeks have been crap without you. All I wanted was to talk to you, see you again Kiss you.

Diversity of opinions is not what is stopping people from living together in harmony. Stupidity isز

I should like to see any kind of a man distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.

'Luck' is recognizing when the situation encourages build out and execution.

When Chuck Norris stands in front of a mirror it shatters because the mirror knows never to stand between CHUCK NORRIS and CHUCK NORRIS.

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

You'd think he'd ran out off rocks," I muttered

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.