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No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.

Aaron's therapist calls him a wounded bird, but, I ask you, who wouldn't care for a wounded bird? What kind of person sees a bird with a broken wing, cat on the horizon, and walks on by?

I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

I want to see the stats for how many crosses there have been; it's been incredulous

But I, for one, am not interested in a harmless truth or a harmless God. Give me a truth that works, and a God who makes me tremble.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.

The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.

You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.