Only when we have enough mental stress to force us to see our own bankruptcy of power, do we trust in God, and only when we trust in God can we make a contribution which will not collapse.

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.

The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

A brand strategy can enable, sometimes crucially, the potential of an innovation to be realised. There are times when you literally need to brand it or lose it.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

I think there are a lot of people who feel very passionate about needing to have an open debate. And I think it's a real sign of leadership that the press needs to be actually standing up for that.

If you are for a merry jaunt, I will try, for once, who can foot it farthest.

The idea of trying to fight against extremism was written off as naive.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.