If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.