The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.

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.

Don't let the Dogma of men to interfere with your Destiny

His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.

All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

The less [government] the better.

And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child.

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin.

Fulham haven't had a shot on target, which is probably why they aren't in the goals.