I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.

....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.

Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.

Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back.

Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

Never confuse activity with action.

There is always a risk to follow your bliss, a price to pursue your passion.

I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger.

The change of the binominal system is without a doubt, a great advancement, it will allow us to be better represented and have better ideas.

I was born February 20, 1937 in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.