[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.

This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.

Don't waste hate on pink geranium.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.