No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result.

The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

Whom the mad would destroy, first they make gods.

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

When we give and receive empathy, transformation occurs.

For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.

The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.

I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

I think we're all brothers - that's the truth. But the press gave us the name black Muslims to cut us off from the others.