Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.

Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Success teaches us nothing only failure teaches.

The sight of a racist mind is too blurred to notice the true beauty of life.

Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.

One idea lights a thousand candles.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.