Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

Art is the product of an imperfect world. In a perfect world, art would not exist.

the worst calamities that befall an army arise from hesitation

Universities charge outrageous prices instead of dipping into their own massive funding.

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone elses perspective.

When I'm in the country with all of the kids around and cooking, that's when I'm most relaxed. When I'm in the country I like to cook.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Where, if not in the Divine Mercy, can the world find refuge and the light of hope?

Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.