Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.