[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart.

when you hate someone, at the same time, you grab that person and give a space in yourself for that person. that's when your hatred might turn into affection, into love.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Most people believe that aging is painful and we know that pain is from diseases that are preventable, not from aging.

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

Sales bring out the worst in people.

It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.

our product will speak for itself if it's that good and your fan base will come and people will want it. Having the right people in your circle is very important to help support that.

It would be much more consumer friendly for them to beep you when you swipe your card that says, uh-oh you're over your limit, are you sure you want to use that?

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!