It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.

I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.

All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

If me and my girlfriend were fighting, and it got to the point where she started crying, I would just shut up and hold her.

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Guns arent the problem; sick people are.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.

Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.