What does help for true, useful learning is to connect a piece of information to as many meaningful contexts as possible, which is what we do when we connect our notes in the slip-box with other notes.

Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.

The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

The baptized Christian has ceased to belong to the world and is no longer its slave. He belongs to Christ alone, and his relationship with the world is mediated through him.

Situations like these, I realized, were what turned people into hypocrites.

Don’t rely on consensus or voting. In teams, different people have different levels of expertise. It makes sense to rely on those whose level of expertise is higher.

If I (Bud) betray myself, my thoughts and feelings will begin to tell me that I’m justified in whatever I’m doing or failing to do.”

The principle of least resistance explains why many professionals default to shallow work, as it is often easier and more immediately rewarding.

If you put your house in order in one fell swoop, you will have tidied up in one fell swoop.