You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Despair is our chance to wrestle with fire and come through.

If you seek to change your life and attain enlightenment, you must deal with these questions. If there is no truth in this, then ignore these silly words.

Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.

I'm as healthy as an ox.

No use gambling if you can't lose your head once in a while.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.