I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

No children are so divine that they do not need responsible parenting and be taught proper manners.

The age of strong belief is over the good is no longer always very good.

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

It is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.

I think you should not limit yourself to dating somebody older or younger.

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.

Fact creates norms, and truth illumination.