That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.

We don't need to pacify our issues, we need to crucify them.

Integrity is a most valued human quality.

God performs miracles, but even for a man to walk on water, action is required.

The only true immortality lies in one's chi

Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

There’s a lot more to being with someone than just love.