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

Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

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

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.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.