It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

Pain will leave you, when you let go

She had an ability to love that went beyond my ability to grasp the slightest concept of what love was.

Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there.

Keep the good memories and throw out the bad ones

Insecurity creates ditches for others and oneself as well.

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

Fooling laymen with science is sometimes so easy it should be criminal.

It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.