What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle