With sociology one can do anything and call it work

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Thank God for His grace.

Luce blushed. "Then what kind of angel are you?""I'm sort of in between gigs right now, " Daniel said.

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.

I was always a fan of horror films as a kid.

I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

I really do believe that the Jesuit system is better for a country.

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.