How few human beings, the major thought with a sigh, can exert by hard work, thrift, intelligence or any other virtue the slightest influence on their own destiny.

The human situation, in general or in particular, is slightly worse (ignoring an occasional hiccup in the graph) at any given moment than at any preceding moment.

Heaven’s Bakery help them all.

In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people and singular in his devotion to God.

The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible.