There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.