For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

God Had A Specific Assignment For The Earth

In life there are perfect moments. You cannot plan them - the very act interferes with the laws of the universe - but you must be ready to recognise them when they come.

It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.

Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.

A dog has no shame. If he can do it, you can watch.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

There is something in omens.

The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.