I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't trust any organization that has a handbook.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know. . . and a desire to predict and control.
I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?
It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.