A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

He had not been tossed aside by time, but lost in it.

The sky sinks slowly inside the past.

Your best is good enough.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I've got to stay ready to play every day.

Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

I like surfing in Mexico a whole lot better than sitting with people in Washington that I don't even like.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.