The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

But still try, for who knows what is possible?

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His unspeakable gift in His beloved Son is the ground of no doubtful hope.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

I shall be with Christ, and that is enough.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

Only write a story that only you can write.

That place is turning into the Hotel California.You know, you can check in, but you can never leave.

True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.

Truth, like love, is never absolute.

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.

God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.