If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.

Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

The Bible calls debt a curse and children a blessing. But in our culture we apply for a curse and reject blessings. Something is wrong with this picture.

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

There is still so much drama in my life, but I'm not a sad person anymore.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived from the other.

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

It can be demonstrated that in any society there is a distribution of religious tastes and concerns.

The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion of the mind.