"In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work."

"If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable."

"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science."

"A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic."

"Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature."