You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

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.

You can grow like a tall tree, when you enjoy the sun, wind, rain, storms and the stars in the dark nights.

They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.

I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life’s experience.

We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.

I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.

When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.

Ever notice how people wait until they're not going to see you anymore to say something nice to you?

Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.

Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.