It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

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.

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

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.

. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them.

There is no God besides the Self. One who knows the Self, knows God.

We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become “fishers of men.

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

Fate decides until challenged by the fated

We must endure Adversity Bravely and cheerfully.

Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.