Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

It's only words...unless they're true.

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy--for friendship's sake.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.

Life is so unlike theory.

You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government.

Being right is highly overrated. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

A vocation to marriage is a vocation to glorify God in a particular state with its necessary rights and duties. It can only be combined with the vocation of a pioneer missionary of the classic type if matrimony is felt to be spiritually neutral, irrelevant to God's calling. Marriage can be irrelevant only if we believe that the body -- matter -- is neutral, irrelevant, or evil. Man can not believe that and believe the Christian faith. God made matter, and was incarnate in it: the comparison of the relation of husband and wife to that between Christ and the Church naturally follows. But this conclusion is not always drawn, for orthodox Christians are often prone to speak and behave as if the Lord... became not flesh but spirit.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains, Men with empires in their purpose, And new eras in their brains.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.