There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

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.

Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.

A climate in which belief may flourish

My whole purpose really is to try to help working families to find better jobs and get better benefits and look out for the little guy.

I hardly ever go to showbiz parties, it's not my style. That doesn't mean to say I don't have a good time. I love hanging out with mates.

Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous.

The message sent is not always the message received.