Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already

There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.

Pure, spiritual, intellectual love shot form their faces like barbedlightning. It was so unlike the love we experience that its expressioncould easily be mistaken for ferocity.