The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.

As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

It's a shame I'm going to be forced to commit severe testicular trauma upon that boy

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

It seems odd, that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others.

You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.

The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.

Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.