There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian. The rest of the world are amiable nonentities.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

The longer I live, the more convinced I am that Christianity is one long shout of joy!