What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about machinery: how it works, what it does, how it compares to living creatures?

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.

Philosophy is so interesting and intriguing that it is almost boring not to be a philosopher.

Life is only as colorful as the paintbox you choose to paint it with.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

Most people fail in leadership b/c they think when they should be working and work when they should be thinking.

I'm a misunderstood genius.""What's misunderstood?""Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

I like hot dogs. I like eggplant. I like pizza and creamed corn and beer. But I don't like Arabs.