God does not seek to destroy the evil nations, but their evil.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

I just like being around people, especially nice people, and there are a lot of nice girls on tour.

Never be afraid of your Bibles.

All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.

President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.

The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.