You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

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 great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith

Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

All genuine learning is active, not passive.

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.