To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

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.

The nature of the ego is to misuse whatever authority one has.

people tell you so much more when they know you're just about to be dead . and then they talk around you, when you are.

I'm not a dating person.

There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace?

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.