What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Man is more himself, more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing and grief superficial.

How can we say that the Church wishes to bring us back into the Dark Ages? The Church was the only thing that ever brought us out of them.

And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

Small caterpillars still become big butterflies.

Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.

I refused to let go of what I had.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

Well, love motivates me in everything I do.