Each era has the fatal hubris to believe that it has once and for all climbed to the top of the mountain and can see everything as it is, from the highest and most objective vantage point possible.

If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.

Communication is not a one-way street.

Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised when I tell you it is yourself.

You should always stand up for what you believe and never stand down to promise or protect your career.

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains, but Emigrated to another star!

The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe.

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

The proud are ever most provoked by pride.