What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?

one spoonful hopeone handful wooden fireone feet soilone glass of waterone man high sky one last breath in smile

The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss.

I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.

The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science.

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

When liberty returns, I will return.

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.