When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.