It’s not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent.

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

How good life is when one does something good and just!

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

I've had quite a lot of bad experiences with Japanese sweets. I reckon, Japanese...they can do most things really well but sweets, they're a bit dodgy.

Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.

A lot of people in my life are getting sick or potentially going to get sick from tobacco.

Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it.

Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

To race is to live. All the rest is simply waiting .

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.