Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Give up trying to make me give up

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.