A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection.

One always feel better when one has made up one's mind.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time.

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.