I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive. (p. 6)

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

No man was ever wise by chance.