Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

Maybe I should tell her that things without meaning are the most beautiful ones. It’s a good sentence, she’ll like it.

As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn’t afraid of contempt, mockery, spitting, beatings.

Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.

Greatness has never been a product of a mind that sees itself as being very unlucky in life.

don't live to regret the things you never said

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak until the finish line is crossed.

People could connect with me... I think the appeal was that, "Here he is, he's just a normal guy like us, and he's giving it his all".

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

If I believe the good, then I have to believe the bad.

We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.