The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.
Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.
I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.
As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.
Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.
By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.
