But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.

Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator.

You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.