If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. Particularly when one can't see the details. Just the shapes. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need?

The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.