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

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.