In all my perplexities and distresses the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world but the frustrating thing is I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

Playing in New England and the Boston area the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

I am building a fire and everyday I train I add more fuel. At just the right moment I light the match.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

Modernity the child of the Enlightenment failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things I smile like a child.

Oh the summer night Has a smile of light And she sits on a sapphire throne.

Laughter is day and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both more bewitching than either.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring sharing person inside.

Modern science then so far from being an enemy of romance is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values we believed than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow between science and superstition.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science especially in the schools of America.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light they say forgetful of the shadow's speed.

There is a single light of science and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.