That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

I haven't been very active in politics.

But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you ought to live

Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.

Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.

As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal - in all of those areas, I am looking forward to the end of the Bush administration with every fiber of my being.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

Is it possible to be too attractive?

You think you can say a few words and end us? There is no end, Eva." he flattened me into the side of the car. I was pinned by six feet, two inches of violently aroused male.

Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.