That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.

There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.

Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.