A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or nation had ever used these words before. . . . Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.

And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted to the race of men.