Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.