One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.

Stability is not the way of the world.

The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.

You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.