A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.