Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

And then Luke had appeared, like a gust that had come to teach me that in life, there was nothing more precious than life itself.

The feet of the Christian need to tread the narrow path that the Savior trod, keeping in step with Him.

I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?

For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.

We cut up lemons on a chop board because they are good for our voices.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.

Just try to make people happy.