When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

Many thousands of people have had the experience of finding the first friend, and it is none the less a wonder; as great a wonder (pace the novelists) as first love, or even greater.

It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.