To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

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.

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, is wealthy. That wealth is the wealth of time.

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

After dinner rest a while after supper walk a mile.

I'd always wanted to grow my hair out. And now looking back on those photos I understand why I probably shouldn't have.

The fact is that Iran doesn't want to see the Taliban come back any more than do most Afghan citizens.

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.