Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

What happens when you pray for an angel and get a vampire instead? R E Mullins

It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also!

We all leave footprints as we journey through life--make sure yours are worth following.

We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.

[On cooking:] What you keep out is as significant as what you put in.

The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.

Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.

We ourselves can never be free if we rob others of their freedom.