We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.