All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Sometimes it feels like I'm thinking against the wind.