It is by falling and getting back up that you learn not to fall very often.

We are the things we don't remember, the blank spaces, the forgotten words.

To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing. Not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

You can linger too long in your dreams.

Your fellowship with God never came because of your righteousness. So how could your own righteousness maintain it?

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.

More people write poetry than read it.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.