What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

This is not the time to panic, this is the time to praise!

The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of an artificial intelligence

One person's religion is another person's cult.

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

If you're not ready to make the greatest effort, don't even think about the greatest goal