If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

What you can become you are already.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.

The purpose of the church is to reveal to the people who God is

Look at resistances to change as a source of energy and where there is energy there is still passion and potential.

Forgiveness brings healing.

Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists.

In vain our labours are whatsoe'er they be unless God gives the Benediction.

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power

I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.

The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.