It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to.

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

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.

Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.