The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

Certitude is not the test of certainty.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

Promise has faith as premise. Only men of faith can promise.

Living forever is easy: be born again. (It's the relationship with your Saviour that's difficult)

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand, and suggests that there’s no point in trying.

When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size.

The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.