Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

Religion implies revelation.

Idleness is paralysis.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.

I'm living in a world of goldfish.

If this is what it's going to take to satisfy everybody, then let's do it and move on.

We are not in prison so we are free and happy? No. We're in a different kind of prison in this life. We have to confront it, and we have to liberate Istanbul and ourselves, as well.

After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Don't deny the existence of a mountain in your life; deny its authority to stay, and refuse to allow it to stop the plan of God in your life.

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance.

When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.