The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

If one believes, then miracles occur.

I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and the grandeur which envelops the whole horizon. Often, when the clouds pile up in the north and the sea is churned with white caps, I say to myself: "This is the California that men dreamed of years ago, this is the Pacific that Balboa looked out on from the Peak of Darien, this is the face of the earth as the Creator intended it to look.