I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.