Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.