The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

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.

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.

Confidence is the attitude of success.

Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince.

From the same window, you keep seeing the same view!

A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.

And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.

I look at some of my contemporaries trying to emulate what they were 30 years ago and just because of the age factor alone, they look silly.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.