There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.

We’d like to think that our youth was madder, brighter, happier than it was. It comforts us as we grow older, to believe that once upon a time we danced at dawn in a fountain.

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament?

Yeah, I'm kind of fit. And I'm quite careful about my diet.

Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.

If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

Look at the US, look at Russia. Both of these countries are immense geographical territories. But, nowadays, immense territories amount to nothing!

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.