If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?

I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.