Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.