Saul Bellow Video

We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Do to others what you would have them do to you.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.

If we had had more time for discussion, we probably would have made a great many more mistakes.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

When you publish a book, it’s the world’s book. The world edits it.

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic

More will mean worse.

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon

Few great men could pass Personnel.