If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

I think character never changes; the Acorn becomes an Oak, which is very little like an Acorn to be sure, but it never becomes an Ash.

Friendship is far more delicate than love.

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...

'Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence, and virtue, and honest fondness, one loves people...

Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes - worse.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.

We look on those approaching the banks of a river all must cross, with ten times the interest they excited when dancing in the meadow.

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

Always question your fear, Anh. there's almost never a good reason to be scared.

For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

The Spirit is testifying that a new day is dawning. The stage of the world is being set for a fullness of a harvest and a genuine apostolic reformation in a new way.

As we get older - perhaps I'm just speaking for myself - we can get too cynical.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all.