When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.