And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.