Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

Religion implies revelation.

Idleness is paralysis.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

He was cut from the scene like a case of the runs from a can-can routine.

Here at great expense, ' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

O month when they who love must love and wed.

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.

I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential.

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.