Depression was like wearing tinted glasses and looking through them changed one's perception dramatically. A fancy new house could be construed as a bunch of boards nailed together.

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)

The way religion makes thousands believe is itself a miracle.

Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

The Bible is the supreme law that all governments must obey.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!