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You want to raise your child in such a way that you don

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The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

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Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

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Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

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Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.

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No country can be described as free- but each has different degrees of bondage.

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Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.

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It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

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