To the irreligious person heaven would be hell.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

The sea is in your eyes. Your face is an eternal summer. Whoever told you otherwise is a fool!

Alcohol makes man into a monkey and then monkey into a donkey. Thus, there is evolution degradation.

I find the more I drink the more interesting others become.

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.

People don’t just disappear. There’s always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There’s always a loose thread that starts to unravel.

We don't seek God's power, we seek His presence. His power & everything else we need is always found in His presence.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.