the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

things never seem as bad as they are.

It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.

... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

The future is for everyone, not far, it's just tomorrow.

Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.

Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.

Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.