It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.

Religion implies revelation.

Idleness is paralysis.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and ended.

Not everything can be felt and not everything will be ever understood.

The Inquisitor waited for silence. "Do you believe in anything?""Not if I can help it. Belief alone is nothing to be proud of, Inquisitor. Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.

I've run for statewide office plenty of times, and people know me.

When you're in the desert you witness acts of power. When you're in the world of the tonal, drop all that nonsense, become logical and orderly and have fun with that.

I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep.