What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.