Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

‎The only way Jesus can be our King is if we allow Him to be our Servant

The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

He was so damn hard, he could chip the ice from his truck's windshield with his rigid pecker.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

God tests His real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

When you realize that the baby's healthy and born, it's a release and you're so happy.

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing.

Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.