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

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".

We feel most alive when we are closest to death.

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

The poorest person on earth is not the person who has no job, no cars, no money and no house. The poorest person is the one who has no vision. Visionlessness is poverty in disguise.

When you know better, you do better!

irony is for a traveler while traveling, happiness increases as the distance increases.

Initially I started writing because I felt like I didn't fit in. I just moved to a new school and I felt quite lonely. I think that's where it all started for me.

I see that being looked at askance as a form of elitism now, which is really scary.

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.