Work that is pure toil, done solely for the sake of the money it earns, is also sheer drudgery because it is stultifying rather than self improving.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do.

Unity is a beast in itself.

To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you

I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

To him that will, waies are not wanting.

Christian, your whole life is to be one continuous following of the Lord.

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy.