What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

You can't put a leash on me. I'm unleashable!

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

I think a show can work anywhere if it's done honestly, with integrity, and with confidence.

Suffering is universal.

Often when something is going on behind the scenes and people fight for change, the fight will go on and on and on until they understand the mechanism that they're actually fighting against.

To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.