“How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?”

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it.

If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.

Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

The old liberal rebelled against taxation without responsibility, the new liberal wants the taxation as a handout without responsibility.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

But I can tell you markets are like women, always commanding, always mysterious, always volatile, always exciting and it is not a joke.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

Out of drag, I’m a white guy with a guitar, which isn’t special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Do everything you ask of those you command.

From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.