The madness of faith is a very different thing from the madness of Enlightenment Reason.

Not where he eats, but where he is eaten’?” He laughed again. “Racine has his moments, sure, but you can’t beat Shakespeare for the really grisly stuff.

many people who think they know do not know what they know and only know what they do not know

We are all broken in some way. But it’s all the shattered pieces that give us depth. Like stained glass, it’s how the pieces and colors fit together that truly makes us beautiful.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.

There are a ton of medical dramas out there dealing with life and death.

Thank God for the white male power structure.

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

I had to sit in front of all these people, and act like I knew what I was doing. I faked my way through it pretty well.

Worship is the believer's response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.