All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality. . . The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.
We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.
There is no right way to do a wrong thing.
Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.
Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.