the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on.

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself..

I've always put myself intensely into my work..

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything.

The times when we could fully count on others are over to a certain extent..

Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above..

I don't think in the religious way that most people associate that word with, but Hern is a committed guy. He's doing the hardest job with the late-t….

Fear is the biggest motivator..

It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her te….

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals..

The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain..

Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects….

I am service-centric. I always intend to leave places better than I find them..

I love what I do for a living..

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of ….

I myself am not comfortable with the notion of secularists congregating in groups, except perhaps for defensive purposes: the last thing a secularist….

I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophica….

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to ….

There's something bad in everything good and something good in everything bad..

Religion is an idea, and, as an idea, it should be eligible for criticism, discussion, and yes, mockery. The only reason so many believers demand spe….