All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

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.

Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.

Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well.

It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map.

Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

I was thinking one of the great things about fiction is we, as a race, only get to look out of our own eyes at the world. And fiction is a fantastic way of looking out through somebody else's eyes.