Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

scales are the grammar of music.

Jesus came to give us life to the very edges of life.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines.

When I want to check out how my lifes been, I go through my albums. They steps in my life.

Whenever God is blessing, we can expect the devil to be opposing.

I don't have the power to issue papal decrees.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.

People are not going to like everything.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.