Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…

...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds.

…mysticism –perhaps the main aberration of the human mind.

By Soulfully understanding all you are - there is no need to fret about what to do next, or when.

Self distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength and they are the weakest however strong who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

To be honest, I was never very ambitious. And I still am not.

I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.

Ghouls weren't smart, but like the Energizer Bunny they kept going and going.

I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

Accumulating years in the act of living is no guarantee of maturity. In fact, it is possible to be born, grow old and die without ever maturing.

Man lives for science as well as bread.