If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table

You have to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandmother was.

a life without investigation is not worth living

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

There must be something to think about at the end.

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?

I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.

The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.

New York is the last true city.

If guys practiced self-control, 'modesty' wouldn't be such a huge deal.