Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

It's you. You deserve this. There is a reason this is happening to you.

-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

All is foreseen but the choice is given.

...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.