Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Now that I have found thee, I know that in the first step I took, I moved away from thee.

My work is my play. I found a way to make my passion to be the same as how I make a living.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

Life can be both hell and bliss or it can be nothing at all.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

All people want to be touched.

Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.