There is in every village a torch- the schoolteacher; and an extinguisher: the priest.
The beautiful is as useful as the useful. ... perhaps more so.
Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand.
Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)
- I'm a Neuroscientist. - What's that? What do you study? - I study your brain!
Religion- made by men to rule women, children and idiots!
Our decisions define our lives. We are the people we choose to be in the ways that most matter. Choose wisely. You will live with the choices you make. The choices you make define your character. And your character defines how you feel about yourself...
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Courage is to act on your beliefs or opinions especially in spite of criticism. Not to act on someones idea of what your courage should be....
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.
Evil is ancient, unchanging, and with us always. The more postmodern the West becomes — affluent, leisured, nursed on moral equivalence, utopian pacifism, and multicultural relativism — the more premodern the evil among us seems to arise in nihil...
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
Unless you are rich and can convalesce in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you at your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments errands, holidays, family,...
Unless you are rich and can convalesce in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to find you at your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments, errands, holidays, family,...
Friend' is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
There is in every village a torch - the teacher: and an extinguisher - the clergyman.
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
