Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

For to be poised against fatality to meet adverse conditions gracefully is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression a positive triumph.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.

Brave men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.