A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.

I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.

Not all who are lost are lost forever.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.

Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

Facebook is for people, Twitter is for perspective, Google+ is for passion, LinkedIn is for pimping

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.