We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.

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.

Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

As’ is the most difficult word in a Christian’s life. We have to forgive 'as' we want to be forgiven.

In times of trouble, people need artists. We create those spaces where their own pain and worry and sadness can rest, and where their broken hearts can hope again.

When we realize that we are not the mind, we do not exist as a labled person. We also experience “all circus around us” does not exist either.

My definition for GOD that works for me is “Pure Energy, Supreme Consciousness.” The highest resolution of pure energy we use is the sensation we call “love.

The confusion created by mode of fictitious imagery, staged to produce a perceived idea of character or life, does only that - confuses.

If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.

If you're asking me as the President, would I understand reality, I do.

To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.