All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

Right and wrong stood for him as immutable as the two poles. He had never wandered in that twilight country where the nuances of evil and good cast their perplexing shadows.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

Forgiveness. It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.

I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway.

When you innovate, the jobs can't go overseas because other countries haven't figured out how to do it yet.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.