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

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

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.

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.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

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