Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood—heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant.

My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.

One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.

The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks.

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.

It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.