You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.

The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.

Determination knows that you can do what it takes, even if that is hard or frightening, in order to achieve the goal you seek.

All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

Look, my dad has a saying - we'll burn that bridge when get to it. OK? You get it? Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

All fates are ‘worse than death’.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.