All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

Nothing happens by mistake the universe has a divine plan...Stay attuned to it.

We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced - and remain convinced now - that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.

I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.

Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."