Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.

She's cool in bed, as she ought to be, cuz Ethyl's dead.

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

You know, people talk about [Richard] Nixon's "madman theory." We don't really know much about that. It was in memoirs, by somebody else.

We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

If the time is available for a budget, I will no doubt make use of that time.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.