Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.

Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.

Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.

In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.

Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life.

A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.

Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity.

Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden.

Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony.

Man's most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker.

Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.

He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? Harry Blakemoor died with his tie on. I like it, Larry.

The only way to address terrorism is to deal with the issues that create terrorism, to resolve them where possible, and where that's not possible to ensure that there is an alternative to violence.

Follow your passion and the rest will straighten itself out.

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Lord help me to begin to begin.

Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.

I got so many emails and text messages, my phone blew up because it couldn't handle everybody. It's like almost being at your own funeral because of the way the headline read.

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.

I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard.