He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.

Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

Emotional fetters may hurt but they lead us to profound lessons of life.

people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

I want to be the best in whatever I do.

Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy, We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb me.

For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?