If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,-then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.
American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.
We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God himself.
Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.
Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
If we can have a good relationship with Russia and if Russia would help us get rid of ISIS, frankly, as far as I'm concerned, that would be a positive thing, not a negative thing.