How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books.

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!

His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluous comment, since a religious man respects the power of God's creation to bear witness for itself.

One came out of the church with a kind of comfortable and satisfied feeling that something had been done that needed to be done, and that was all I knew about it.

My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again.

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.

Many of us don’t realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives.

All the world's people should share all the world's resources.

Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

A champion isn’t made of muscle; a champion is made of heart.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.