I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

There are no office hours for leaders.

We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.

For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

There are no working hours for leaders.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

There are a thousand reasons to blame others for your failure, but none of them will give you success, The only way to succeed in future is by taking responsibility of your present failure.

Poverty should first be addressed in the mind because even if you give millions to a poor person, until there's a change of mindset, they will still remain the same.

But if I make an observation, what is to determine which state I am in? This means that someone else has to observe me to collapse my wave function.

Yet the same thing happens to the notions of morality. They are devised, at the start, as measures of expediency, and then given divine sanction in order to lend them authority.

Be careful not to let the things that you don't have to blindfold you from noticing the all the blessings in your life.

Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.

There is a certain sense of loss when a series ends.

Our green valleys will be greener once we fully grasp the infinite vitality of the green!

Out of resistance comes strength.

Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston.