We like the gift when we the giver prize.

Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Love is the salt of life.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

Take my books away, and I should be desperate!

The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.

All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first.

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives