She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

O Lord, I thank you for the gift of life.

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.

Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature