Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

How good life is when one does something good and just!

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He’ll figure it all out anyway.

Look at me

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.

Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.