Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and the spirit of indifference.

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.

The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it.