Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great

Evolution is more about the condition of the heart of a man who does not want to acknowledge God than it is about the facts.

For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - it’s the British…the Dutch…then it’s the Arabs…then it’s the French…then it’s the Jews…and then, on down the line.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?” said David. “I don't have much faith in anything,” Roland replied. “Not even in myself.”

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got