The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

Great men, great events, great epochs, it has been said, grow as we recede from them; and the rate at which they grow in the estimation of men is in some sort a measure of their greatness.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven .

For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

Relentless enthusiasm keeps us young.

King John was not a good man, He had his little ways.And sometimes no one spoke to him, For days and days and days.

What I can do, I will do. What I can't do, I will surrender to the one that can.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Most adults I know start their Internet session at Google, and most kids I know start their Internet session at either Facebook or MySpace.

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

I've been down in Florida since 1979. When you're born in Nebraska you really can't explain it.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because, you know, people are such fusions now, of so many different cultures.