If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.