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

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually.

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God.