Divine punishment are also mercies.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Tea should be taken in solitude.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

Excessive regulation is costing America as much as $2 trillion a year. And I will end it very, very quickly.

There's not swelling music and emotional scenes in life, and there's not long pauses when you tell a joke for everybody to laugh. That's not how it goes. Life just sort of happens to you.

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.

I was born in the U.S. Why should anyone who has an unfavorable view of the American government renounce his or her citizenship? Why don't its supporters relinquish their citizenship first?

Sometimes you have to get off track to discover a better track

The great source of pleasure is variety.

The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it's tough, but the second time, it's always easier. You just have to push for your rights.