He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

So I am not exactly sure what I imagine and what I remember. Is there a difference? Not much, if you ask me.

I think the people can bash Catholics because they know Catholics won't kill them. Quite frankly, there's some religions out there, you bash and they're going to kill you.

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

Everybody acts like I'm nuts. I'm not nuts I just want to feel it all.

Ideas need collective thought.

Without God, life is everything.

Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.

I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.

A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they've been around since the Stone Age.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.