Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

Even big-bird gets sad sometimes

I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

Chelsea are not made to play football. We're good on the counter, a little bit like Real against Bayern.

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.