Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men who are after all imperfect instruments working for their fulfilment.

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is but I happen to be imperfect. However that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think might dispose us to modesty.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

If on occasion the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection if you would of our intelligence.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection and extended to all possible truth.

We will have to give up the hope that if we try hard we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.