When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.

Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.

Once the anchor of reason has been cut, ones craft may go anywhere. One may become a St Francis or equally a Hitler.

To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

Politics for me started in violence.

The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"

Dear young people, do not be afraid of making decisive choices in life. Have faith; the Lord will not abandon you!

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.