In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

It is ironic that we are particular about flushing out all the dirt through the Drain, but we continue to retain a lot of it in our Brain.

How can the boy who stirred an entire nation be dying?

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.

People get caught up in formulaic answers. When one doesn't work, they just go on to the next.

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it, it's too risky. You get a sense of it and then you look away.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.