There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.