Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began.

If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side’s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it.

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

Things never happen the same way twice.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?