Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.