The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don't know what happens next, afterward.

The more we get attached to any relationship, the more we lose the grip on our emotional freedom.

People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.

I must admit that I don't really understand social networking models that well, and I haven't tried to because I have just not been enthused about this whole thing.

We had 10 months, sliding schedule to do 52 episodes. After you get over the shock of the size of the number, the job became one of expansion.

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

Manchester United have, since 1991, conquered Europe about as successfully as Head and Shoulders has conquered dandruff

You cannot be a fully functioning 21st-century citizen in America unless you have access to high-speed broadband. It's as simple as that.

Sometimes belts are flattering, and it helps with proportions.

I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.