If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human heart which is always craving for perpetuity.

The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.

It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.

One lives everything down in time.

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

I don't like writing for myself to sing. I prefer to have other people's voices to dispose of in some way that they'll like or not like or flatter them or not flatter them. It's fun.

In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people.

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.

If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.