Reinhold Niebuhr

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.