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.

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.

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.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.

The Apostles used their voice not to change the current political situation, but to change the world forever by changing hearts

You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

God works through men. I see nowhere in the Word where God picks an organization.

Remember, work, well done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding.

I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.