When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."

It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.