Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.

Have faith in all that you make.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.

As surely as the Lord has inspired more missionaries to serve, He is also awakening the minds and opening the hearts of more good and honest people to receive His missionaries.

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.