Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.