These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

I find that doing the will of God leaves me with no time for disputing about His plans.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

A computer is almost human - except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.

The better part of valour is discretion.

Westminster Abbey, or Victory.

For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. - My Summer in a Garden, 1871.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.