“The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.”

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Become who you are by learning who you are.

As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.

I think the city of Washington itself is insular to a certain extent. You have to get out in the country to realize what is going on and discover that the perceptions in Washington aren’t necessarily accurate.

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.

Have faith in the fall. Sometimes life knocks us down so that we can discover what resides at the bottom of it all.

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are… That we actually have the guts, the perserverance, the capacity… because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know.