He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.