Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?