Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God.

Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.

You might be a redneck if you can't get married to your sweetheart because there is a law against it.

God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.

Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

I'm as American as apple pie.

Autopsies give us the facts but not the truth.