The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.