In real life there is no such person as the average man.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.