"To demand perfection is a sure way to be disappointed in everybody, for you will be bound to think ill of others."

"Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."

"A modern U.S. Navy cruiser now requires 26 tons of manuals. This is enough to affect the vessel's performance."

"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once."

"I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody."

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian."

"Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates."

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

"Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child."

"A cult is a religion with no political power."

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."