Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

A great mind must be androgynous.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.

I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now I'm in trouble cause the dean saw the punch.

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal.

We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.

You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife.

By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.