Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional, vague and enigmatic.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

How good life is when one does something good and just!

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

I suppose that one’s years spent living do not reflect a measure of our souls or strength of character.

Luck is not real, it a simple word .

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can't do.

There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another tax bracket.

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.