Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

The last struggles of a great superstition are very frequently the worst.

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.

That the majority of people do not embrace salvation in this life does not mean that their experiences now do not lay a foundation for a later acceptance of it.

My passion is to see ordinary believers receive extraordinary answers to their prayers.

If you can't bite don't show your teeth.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open. It comes back to balance.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And...and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked. "The landscape architect!" Ian shouted.

Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day.