Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

Clear statement is argument.

The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.

. . . a constitution, intended toendure for ages to come, andconsequently, to be adapted to thevarious crises of human affairs.

It's odd, isn't it? People die everyday and the world goes on like nothing happened.

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

when your life is out of balance your cheque bounces

I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film.

Baseball is like this. Have one good year and you can fool them for five more, because for five more years they expect you to have another good one.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

There aren't many sins in my bible. Giving up is the greatest one of all.

To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.