Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

There’s no sin problem. Jesus settled that. There’s just a sinner problem. Get the sinner to Jesus, and that cures the problem.

The holiness of the gospel softens the hardness of the heart.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.

A man without trust is a man without life.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.