Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.

Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.

The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift.

People have struggled for the benefits of others, you can struggle at least for your own benefit.

Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation He will descend in His wild pursuit of men.

You can be taught to write – you can’t be taught to be an artist

The best comedy on earth shows up when an immoral person talks about the morals!

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

You just learn one thing for the day, that can change a fight.

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.