No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Truth is a pathless land.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.