Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey.

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

I've always wanted to go where the work was or where I was wanted. The idea that it can be planned is one I let go of a long time ago.

I love this young people's music.

It wasn't so much that I was afraid of the place itself, but I was afraid of the creatures who masqueraded as people.

If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.

Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.