People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest.

Be fruitful, and multiply.