Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

Some of my best ideas come from when I'm sitting on the toilet.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.

To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.