Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.

We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.

My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life.

I'm proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am.

The art of living is to know when to hold fast and when to let go.

Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.

Smell is a fallen angel.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

There is no excuse for not catching a ball you can get to.

I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.