My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.