A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.
I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.
Each individual`s way is going to be different. Never follow anybody. That is the greatest calamity that can happen to a man. Once you start following somebody else, you become a carbon copy. You become an imitation.
When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.
From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.