Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

But still try, for who knows what is possible?

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.

... and what good is a baby?

Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either, " Naja said, "and that doesn't involve magic.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again.

Clara," he says, my name sounding different somehow when it passes through his lips. "I'll miss you.

The first time when you can really get a sense of what the movie is going to look and feel like is when you're in a casting room and seeing it.

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.

No matter how you were born, no matter how you identify, I want to be clear that I would be proud to grind you up and eat you.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.